Leadership in the church is sacred. It is not simply an organizational system of power—it comes with inherent trust and carries spiritual weight, influence, and relational and emotional impact. Jesus understood this. In Mark 10, Jesus gave His disciples this picture of leadership: “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among

I received disappointing news yesterday. Conflict and harm in a community I love did not make way for healing and repair in the way many had hoped. Ruptures left holes where deep humility, repentance, and reconciliation were needed. Godly men and women prayed. Others risked using their voices. It was messy, but full of people working to name and right wrongs—hoping that light would pave a path toward repentance and reconciliation. N o one side got what they hoped for. In Jos

I ran into someone dear to me recently who has walked through a difficult and painful church experience. My heart was flooded with compassion hearing more of their family's story. They weren't in the center of the heartbreaking spiritual or sexual abuse that was uncovered, but they loved their church and their community—and it fell apart. Hearing the story of their teenage daughter losing her friend group in the aftermath of abuse made my heart ache and it held familiar echoe

When my world came crashing down, I was surrounded by broken pieces – broken relationships, broken hearts, broken dreams, broken me. Nothing was untouched by the grief and heartbreak I was facing. The fallout was brutal. Where there was once friendship, I encountered silence. Where there was once purpose, the days stretched out before me, empty. Where there was once certainty, I was reeling, unsure, wounded, confused. I felt abandoned, rejected, judged, alone, and the tears

I remember riding my first roller coaster like it was yesterday.  I was probably 11 or 12, visiting Six Flags with our youth group, and I...

There are two things you need to know about my friend, Becky. She listens to Jesus, and she’s a phenomenal cook. Pies are her specialty,...

Have you ever suddenly found yourself "upside down" with a controlling leader? Maybe you asked a question you shouldn't have asked or...

Ten years ago the Lord broke through the darkness to bring our co-founders and many alongside them into the light. The potency of the...

I hung up the phone, my heart breaking over the story I’d just heard. Another woman. Another daughter, wife, mother. Another congregant...

Over the course of three Sundays in the last month, in two different churches across two states, I heard three different speakers teach...

In this podcast with Julie Roys of the Roys Report, Sharon Clements, Co-founder of The Way Home, shares about the tender, sometimes...

Life is full of endings. Some expected, some jarring—the loss of a job, a friendship, a marriage. Even when an ending is right or full of...

“But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center...

We at The Way Home are deeply saddened and outraged by the abuse that predicated recent charges brought against a former pastor in...

I’m struck by the frequency that some Christians label any sexual activity between a married pastor and an adult congregant who is not...

Photo by Jared Stump In recent years, the evangelical community has witnessed a troubling trend of minimizing the gravity of sin committed by influential church leaders. The most recent example of this is the way Gateway Church elders have addressed the allegations against their founding pastor, Robert Morris. Robert Morris, the founder and lead pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, has been a prominent and influential figure in the evangelical community. Under his le

We walked away from you after that first meeting Certain That we had found our calling To be a part of something that mattered. You sold...

Abuse is a big word. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. Words are funny things, holding nuance and implication, and changing...

I did not want to believe I’d been abused. The church I’d been a part of had been compelling and life changing. So many people had come...

After coming to Christ at a young age alone in my room reading the gospels, I was fortunate to have been discipled as part of a college...