Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology around my guest today is Jennifer Greenberg who is the author of not forsaken a story of life after abuse

and also the her just recently released book is Defiant Joy.

Find the Hope to Light Your Way even in the darkness.

Jen has become one of the foremost voices against child abuse in the church.

She also writes for Christianity today, the Gospel Coalition and the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention.

I guess I should give a trigger warning.

Jen shares her story, which is one of experience.

I mean, she's experienced a lot of abuse in her past and she talks openly about that. so yeah this this is a it's a very

sobering in madening story in many ways to hear what Jen went through and to hear her come out on the other side in a way where she has healed well from the trauma she experiences.

It's just a really powerful story and I'm so thankful for Jen's voice both, I mean in this

podcast as you'll hear and also her voice in the church. So please welcome to the show for the first time,

the one and only Jennifer Green. Well, welcome Jennifer Green.

Well, welcome Jennifer to the Thealdron Podcast.

I'm very excited to have this conversation.

You just came out with a book, A Defiant Joy,

find the hope to light your way even in darkness and then your previous book not forsaken a story of life after abuse.

What so can you tell us about who you are and why you cultivated such a passion to help address the problem of abuse in the church?

Yeah, absolutely. Well, I grew up in the church, mainly in Orthodox Presbyterian, so OPC and PCA churches.

So Reformed Calvinistic tended to be very like, I say this lovingly very nerdy churches.

Yeah, I like nerdy churches.

And yeah, absolutely and I love I love discussing theology like in an academic context. I love digging into like I don't speak the Greek in Hebrew but I love digging into all that stuff and and anyway so yeah I'm I'm a proud nerd but yeah so I grew up in the

Presbyterian Church and my dad taught Sunday school in some of our churches on occasion and see he read the Bible to us and prayed with us, but he was also very abusive he was violent he threatened to kill me if I ever told

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