Defining Spiritual Abuse
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today Dan and Rachael revisit one of the most listened-to topics on the podcast: spiritual abuse. However, before we dive into the conversation, we recognize that we cannot address the reality of spiritual abuse without taking into account that many, many people have encountered violations of various kinds within spiritual contexts. Over the course of their conversation today, the first of two on this topic, you’ll hear more about how to define spiritual abuse in Christian contexts, tools used by spiritually abusive leaders to maintain power and control, and the insidious nature of spiritual abuse.
Listener Resources:
Register to attend Confronting Spiritual Abuse on June 5
Listen to a podcast episode, “Narcissism and the Church with Chuck DeGroat”
Listen to our very first, three-part podcast series on Spiritual Abuse
Listen to a podcast episode about the particulars of “Mind Control and Dogmatism in Spiritual Abuse”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Dr. Dan Allender. |
| 0:08.5 | And I'm Rachel Clinton-Chen. |
| 0:10.6 | We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world. |
| 0:14.8 | And restoration for the heart. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's get this conversation started. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, Rachel, we have often honestly begun a podcast by saying what's going on. |
| 0:34.5 | And I need to do that today because I'm about to lose my mind. If I could have |
| 0:39.6 | legitimately put my fist through this freaking computer, it would have done it five times. |
| 0:48.0 | And again, just between the two of us, like we've done this what feels like hundreds of times. And somehow the intersection of us. Like, we've done this, what feels like, hundreds of times. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.5 | And somehow the intersection of our technology, just to be able literally to hear one another through |
| 1:01.8 | Zoom and Zencaster, it sucks. And it's been a bad, at least 30 minutes. |
| 1:09.1 | Oh, try 45. |
| 1:10.8 | Okay, whatever. Yeah. I don't even have time anymore. Oh, try 45. Okay, whatever. |
| 1:11.9 | I don't even have time anymore. |
| 1:14.6 | But, you know, as we engage this, just to underscore, we've done this without a lot of complications. |
| 1:21.0 | Some, but not a lot. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.8 | Why today? |
| 1:24.4 | Why today? |
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