LITTLE ROCK (AR)
Bilgrimgage blog
August 24, 2019
By William Lindsey
Ruth Krall has generously prepared a brief afterword to her six-part series of essays entitled “Recapitulation: Affinity Sexual Violence in a Religious Voice.” I’ve published those six essays in installments at Bilgrimage, and at the end of this posting, will provide links to the entire series. The basic premise of Ruth’s series of essays is that sexual abuse of vulnerable people by leaders is an endemic problem in religious groups across the globe, and, as she states in the afterword below, “Until the world community learns how to accurately assess this world public health/community mental health phenomenon of clergy sexual abuse of the powerless and the vulnerable, the problem will continue to proliferate.” Ruth’s essay follows.
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