Pastor Robbin Leeroy Harper Pleads Guilty to Child Rape & Molestation

My thanks to seattlepi.com for this story.
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By CLAUDIA ROWE
P-I REPORTER
A pastor described by police as charismatic and controlling pleaded guilty Wednesday to numerous counts of child rape and molestation involving five young girls in Kitsap County.
Robbin Leeroy Harper, 60, leader of a fringe religious group called The Church, faces more than 26 years in prison, [...]

Sticks & Stones: Why Verbal Abuse Kills, II

Sticks and stones
May break my bones,
But words could even kill me…
Have you noticed that while you are accumulating birthdays the you inside doesn’t get any older? Somewhere in my late 20’s I realized I didn’t feel any different than I had when I was 18 or 22. Now I look in the mirror [...]

Sticks & Stones: Why Verbal Abuse Kills, I

Sticks and stones
Will break my bones,
But names will never hurt me….
Do you remember chanting that nursery rhyme on the school playground? We were told by the teachers that names couldn’t hurt, so anything a bully said could be ignored. It was a great idea for children (maybe) but it’s a naive idea that doesn’t work [...]

Paige Patterson On Domestic Violence

The Southern Baptist Outpost has an article with an excerpt from audio recordings and transcripts from a conference in 2000, in which Paige Patterson explains the counsel he gave one battered woman. Here’s the quote the Outpost posted:
I had a woman who was in a church that I served, and she was being subject to some abuse, [...]

Victim or Survivor?

I found the best series of articles about marital abuse and domestic violence I have seen to date.  I asked the author if I could repost them on my site because they are fantastic. Check out this page for links to the articles. Be sure to read them all — they are excellent.

… and Let the Wife See that She Respects Her Husband

OK, that title grated on my nerves when I first saw it on the blog I’m referencing.  I just had to read it though, to see if it was saying what I thought it was.  It wasn’t!  What I found was a very good and lengthy book review, in which the author offers some great [...]

The Neatnik and The “Relaxed” Housekeeper

This morning on the radio while I was driving to school, there was an interesting issue being discussed on the Christian station.  The show hosts received an e-mail from a woman asking for advice.  I don’t have an accurate quote since I’m operating from memory here, but the woman indicated her husband is a neatnik [...]