Advocacy Blog

Why I am Not (Exactly) an Advocate

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,...

Guest Blog: A Response to Matt Walsh on #Metoo

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...

Let’s Talk about Our Boys

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...

Blue Hair, Tribal Boundaries, and Learning to Listen

Blue Hair, Tribal Boundaries, and Learning to Listen

“Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.” This is a subject a little off the beaten path of my normal message of advocacy for victims of...