Author: Women Freed

Hi, Internet! You’re back, making a hoopla about something our pastor posted on his blog, so we’re back, too, with a bit of a response.Pastor Wilson wrote this post about how a false accuser might use the social capital of victimhood to get sympathy and hide her guilt.A good chunk of the reactions, in varying degrees of…

Almost as early as I can remember, I was an absolute professional at sidelong glancing. I was chronically ungrateful. I became a Christian in college and felt liberated from my sin and joyous because in the people of Christ Church I had my people; I felt like I was truly home for the first time in…

Prologue: I knew I couldn’t be alone. The statistics on sexual abuse being what they are, in a congregation of several hundred I knew there were others. I still don’t know who most of them are, but I’m glad I can now stand with them to express gratitude for the safety we have found at…

My story is not out of the ordinary. I came into the church with a past. A past filled with partying. Boys and more boys. An alcoholic father. A family maimed by divorce. I came into the church wounded. And more so than I thought. I first came to Christ Church with a friend, and I was…

What can wash away my sin?Nothing but the blood of Jesus;What can make me whole again?Nothing but the blood of Jesus. This hymn by Robert Lowry is brilliant. It addresses those who have committed grievous sin and those who have had grievous sin committed against them. Both are true of me. And the solution to…

I don’t often share my story. From the time I could toddle till around the age of seven I was sexually abused by two men. One of my more vivid childhood memories is being locked in a room as a little girl, wanting to go to the bathroom to pee, and not being allowed out until…

I came to Moscow, Idaho, during my college years with a history of sexual abuse that I had not yet dealt with or talked about. I was a mess. I had been molested when I was 11, and the fallout from that had been pretty incredible, as one can imagine. I was teetering on the brink of…

Over the past couple of months there has been a fair amount of chatter on the Internet about Christ Church and our Pastor, Douglas Wilson. People who have never been to our town, never been to our church, never met our pastor or elders, and never met us, have been maligning us all in countless…