Wholly Healthy: Sexual Abuse — Know the Signs

It seems that every week, every month, we learn of another allegation of the sexual abuse of children. While it’s easy to throw stones at various groups, a horrible truth remains: Humans are sinful and abusive. We can find sexual abuse in any group. It’s not a problem that can be relegated to Catholics or Protestants. Nor is it isolated to home-schoolers, private or public school kids, poor or rich, or any particular ethnicity; the tragedy of the sexual abuse of children is universal. Therefore, it would be wise for all of us to know the signs of the sexual abuse of children. This way we can help identify those who might be in danger when we see them in our churches or at our church activities. After all, our churches should be places of absolute safety for children. How demonic it is when they aren’t. Sunday school teachers, youth…