LITTLE ROCK (AR)
Bilgrimage blog
August 9, 2019
By William Lindsey
This essay is the sixth in a series of essays Ruth Krall has generously offered us on Bilgrimage, under the series title “Recapitulation: Affinity Sexual Violence in a Religious Voice.” This link will point you to links to each previous essay in the series. In her “Recapitulation” series, Ruth addresses what she sees as the he endemic nature of sexual abuse of followers in religious contexts and contexts offering spiritual guidance. From the outset, Ruth’s latest essay on moral corruption in the religious commons announces its theme:
If it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to repeatedly enable sexual abuse of that same child. This is so whether she lives inside secular society or he lives inside a deeply pious religious and worshipping community.
Ruth’s essay “Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons” follow. Because the essay is rich and long, I’ll be sharing it in several installments, of which this is the first.
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