Connie Angel Sanders

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 Joshua 5, as Israel...

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 echoes. Watching my...

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