{"id":22495,"date":"2017-04-27T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/resources-for-churches-raising-awareness-about-child-sexual-abuse\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:35:51","slug":"resources-for-churches-raising-awareness-about-child-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/resources-for-churches-raising-awareness-about-child-sexual-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for Churches: Raising Awareness about Child Sexual Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and I invite you to avail yourself of some excellent resources being offered by the Church Law & Tax Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Richard R. Hammar, \u201cChild Sexual Abuse: Far too many churches are legally vulnerable<\/a>\u201d Church Law & Tax Report <\/em>(March-April 2016).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Samuel Ogles, \u201cAnswering Church Leaders\u2019 Common Questions About Background Checks: Looking more closely at what is needed to effectively screen volunteers and employees who work with minors<\/a>\u201d Church Law & Tax Report <\/em>(June 2015).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tara Beecham, \u201cScreening the Screener: What to Look For in a Background Check Service: Two simple steps to reduce the risk<\/a>\u201d Church Law & Tax Report <\/em>(March 2013).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Jackson, \u201cWhat Do You Do with Volunteers Who Exhibit ‘Gray Area’ Behavior?: Three attorneys explain how churches can respond to concerning situations involving church volunteers<\/a>\u201d Church Law & Tax Report <\/em>(November 2016).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard J. Mathews, \u201cWhat I Learned from Advising the Boy Scouts of America During Their Abuse Crisis: An attorney\u2019s advice for organizations on preventing and responding to child sexual abuse<\/a>\u201d Church Law & Tax Report <\/em>(August 2016).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I would also like to point you to resources from PneumaReview.com:<\/p>\n

Jennifer Cisney, \u201cHealing From the Pain of Sexual Assault<\/a>\u201d Enrichment<\/em> (Spring 2009). Reviewed by <\/strong>Mara Lief Crabtree<\/a>. <\/strong>As appearing in the Spring 2010 issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew J. Schmutzer<\/a>, \u201cA Theology of Sexuality and its Abuse: Creation, Evil, and the Relational Ecosystem, Part 1<\/a>.\u201d <\/strong>As appearing in the Summer 2013 issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew J. Schmutzer<\/a>, \u201cA Theology of Sexuality and its Abuse: Creation, Evil, and the Relational Ecosystem, Part 2<\/a>.\u201d <\/strong>As appearing in the Fall 2013 issue.<\/p>\n

In Conversation with Andrew Schmutzer, Part 1<\/a>. <\/strong>As appearing in the Summer 2013 issue. An interview with Andrew Schmutzer<\/a> about\u00a0The Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0part 1\u00a0of his chapter, \u201cA Theology of Sexuality and its Abuse: Creation, Evil, and the Relational Ecosystem<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Conversation with Andrew Schmutzer, Part 2<\/a>.<\/strong> As appearing in the Fall 2013 issue. An interview with Andrew Schmutzer<\/a> about\u00a0The Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused<\/a><\/em>, and part 2 of his chapter, \u201cA Theology of Sexuality and its Abuse: Creation, Evil, and the Relational Ecosystem<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Conversation with Andrew Schmutzer, Part 3<\/a>. <\/strong>As appearing in the Winter 2014 issue. An interview with Andrew Schmutzer<\/a> about\u00a0The Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0part 1<\/a>\u00a0of the chapter, \u201cA Charge for Church Leadership: Speaking Out Against Sexual Abuse and Ministering to Survivors<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy Nason\u2013Clark<\/a> and Stephen McMullin, \u201cA Charge for Church Leadership: Speaking Out Against Sexual Abuse and Ministering to Survivors<\/a>,\u201d Part 1. <\/strong>As appearing in the Winter 2014 issue.<\/p>\n

Nancy Nason\u2013Clark<\/a> and Stephen McMullin, \u201cA Charge for Church Leadership: Speaking Out Against Sexual Abuse and Ministering to Survivors<\/a>,\u201d Part 2. <\/strong>As appearing in the Spring 2014 issue.<\/p>\n

Andrew J. Schmutzer, \u201cA Theology of Sexual Abuse: A Reflection on Creation and Devastation<\/a>\u201d JETS<\/em> 51:4 (Dec 2008). Reviewed by <\/strong>Bradford L. McCall<\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>Appearing in the Winter 2010 issue. Editor\u2019s note: As you might gather from the title, this is a review of an article that originally appeared in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society<\/em>. This article became one of the anchor articles for the book, Andrew J. Schmutzer, ed.,\u00a0The Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Resource Publications, 2011), and was later a featured excerpt in the Summer and Fall 2013 issues (see links above) at PneumaReview.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and I invite you to avail yourself of some excellent resources being offered by the Church Law & Tax Report. Richard R. Hammar, \u201cChild Sexual Abuse: Far too many churches are legally vulnerable\u201d Church Law & Tax Report (March-April 2016). Samuel Ogles, \u201cAnswering Church Leaders\u2019 Common Questions About…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2843,"featured_media":22496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2884],"tags":[2973,2974,2975,2976,2977,2978,2979],"ppma_author":[4702],"class_list":["post-22495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry-2","category-spring-2017","tag-abuse","tag-awareness","tag-child","tag-churches","tag-raising","tag-resources-2","tag-sexual","author-raullmock"],"authors":[{"term_id":4702,"user_id":2843,"is_guest":0,"slug":"raullmock","display_name":"Raul Mock","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Raul20181029-480x480-150x150.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Raul20181029-480x480-150x150.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22495"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}