Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach

LITTLE ROCK (AR)
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June 13, 2019

By William Lindsey

I recently had the privilege of publishing an essay by Ruth Krall entitled “Prolegomena: An Act of Re-Thinking” (here and here). That essay challenged readers to re-think how we’ve come to view the phenomenon of sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable people in religious contexts, and to consider applying terms and concepts from the realm of public health (e.g., epidemic, endemic, or pandemic) to this phenomenon.

“Prolegomena” is the first in a multi-part set of essasys on which Ruth has been working, with the title (for the entire series), “Recapitulation: Affinity Sexual Violence in a Religious Voice.” In her manuscript gathering essays together under that title, Ruth includes a dedicatory note acknowleding the influence of her father Carl S. Krall on her life, work, and thought. It reads,

In Memory, Carl S. Krall, 1901-1963

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