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Guest Blog: A Response to Matt Walsh on #Metoo

by | September 28, 2018 | Advocacy Blog, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

I’m happy to welcome my husband onto the blog for a guest post today. A few days back, provocative Christian blogger Matt Walsh released an op-ed on the politically conservative news site, The Daily Wire. The title of his piece was “It’s Time for the #Metoo movement...
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In Advocacy: Begin with Belief

by | February 28, 2017 | Advocacy Blog, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

To study psychological trauma is to come face to face both with human vulnerability in the natural world and with the capacity for evil in human nature. To study psychological trauma means bearing witness to horrible events. When the events are natural disasters or...
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Looking for Patterns

by | February 1, 2017 | Advocacy Blog, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

"Destructive behaviors and attitudes can sometimes be difficult to describe succinctly. That’s why an emotionally destructive marriage is not usually diagnosed by looking at a single episode of sinful behavior (which we’re all capable of), but rather repetitive...
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Let’s Talk about Our Boys

by | May 28, 2018 | Advocacy Blog, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

When I first started this blog and my associated Facebook page at @ClaireRoiseAdvocacy, I addressed male-dominated abusive marriages within the church almost exclusively. It was a needed area of conversation; it was what I had seen; and I certainly wasn’t the only one...
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Why I am Not (Exactly) an Advocate
This post has been brewing for a while. My husband and I started our unplanned journey into the (at that time brand new) world of advocacy about six years ago, by helping a friend who was caught in a domestic violence situation. Due to the way that story unfolded,...
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Guest Blog: A Response to Matt Walsh on #Metoo
I’m happy to welcome my husband onto the blog for a guest post today. A few days back, provocative Christian blogger Matt Walsh released an op-ed on the politically conservative news site, The Daily Wire. The title of his piece was “It’s Time for the #Metoo movement...
Read More
Let’s Talk about Our Boys
When I first started this blog and my associated Facebook page at @ClaireRoiseAdvocacy, I addressed male-dominated abusive marriages within the church almost exclusively. It was a needed area of conversation; it was what I had seen; and I certainly wasn’t the only one...
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Interview with Boz, Part Two: When Sexual Abuse Happens in a Family or a Church
I had the great pleasure of meeting Basyle "Boz" Tchividjian in person last year in Virginia at the Courage Conference. Boz has been a shining light of inspiration for myself and my husband for several years now. A one-time prosecutor, and founder of the...
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Idiosyncracies

Nov 9, 2007

A small collection of sample happenings and traits. Only a taste of the fun we get to have every...

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