How do I reconcile my faith with abuse done in the name of righteousness?

Ask Dr. Julie Hanks

Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, I coach Katelyn and address the question "How do I reconcile my faith with abuse done in the name of righteousness?" I tell Katelyn that she doesn’t have to reconcile bad things that other people have done. Those people were wrong, and the gospel can still be true. And you can still participate in it if you want to, even though there are broken people all around you.We also discuss personal authority and general authority. I help Katelyn see that not everything that is said b...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	I'm so happy to have Caitlin on the podcast today. Welcome, Caitlin.
0:50.2	Hi. Thanks so much for having me on.
0:52.6	I'm happy you're here. What is your question for me today?
0:57.6	Well, I hope it's okay. I wrote some stuff down just so that that way it could, you know, be sort of easy to understand. So I'm going to just, I'll read my question. So faith is important to me, but I've experienced and witnessed some pretty hurtful behavior done in the name of faith.
1:14.2	So how do I reconcile my faith with abuse done in the name of righteousness?
1:20.3	And I'm using the term abuse just a little bit loosely here because my examples range from sort of what I have seen as sort of an abuse of power
1:29.4	by overstepping authority to actual verbal or emotional abuse. And I have had testimony
1:35.9	building experiences that make my faith and religious practice important to me. But I've not
1:41.3	been active for a few years and struggle with some family relationships because of people who try to control others at almost any cost because they think that they have the right or the duty to do that.
1:50.7	And there are good people in the church and I've had a lot of really great experiences in the church as well.
1:55.8	And in fact, actually, even some of the great experiences that I've had are with some of the people that these concerns
2:01.0	are about, which is part of what makes this so complicated because it just feels really multifaceted
2:07.1	to me. And I want to have this religious practice in my life, but it feels a little bit like
2:12.0	it has to be all or nothing and that there's not really room for me to figure things out while I'm
2:16.4	participating.
2:20.9	Okay. Really well said.
2:26.9	Okay, so kind of the core of the question is how do you reconcile?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Julie Hanks, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Julie Hanks and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.