Is Speaking Up Always the Right Answer?

The silence that has protected too many bad actors must give way to something—not mob justice, but honest, communal discernment.

I came close to being sexually assaulted by one of the most prominent ministers in the country.

I was new to ministry. He was a celebrated man of God, introduced to me by a trusted mentor who had no idea who his pastor really was. The encounter was physically threatening. It was spiritually devastating. And it nearly drove me out of the church altogether.