Religion and Politics

The Sin of Silence

For The Washington Post, Joshua Pease reports on the epidemic of sexual abuse within evangelical churches and institutions. He profiles Rachel Denhollander, who helped bring down Larry Nassar, the doctor convicted of abusing her and hundreds of women. Denhollander has used her public platform to speak out on sexual abuse within evangelicalism as well, noting how her own former church and others have mishandled it. Pease writes, “It was a word of warning for a community that, writ large, has been complicit in minimizing and enabling rape, molestation and emotional abuse within its walls.”

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