by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Nov 11, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
There is a particular biblical story that drives me nuts. It’s the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well in the Gospel of John, chapter 4. I won’t recap the whole thing here, but the part that I get stuck on is the funny bit where Jesus tells the...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Apr 10, 2013 | Free, Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
This is my last post in a series of three dealing with sexual abuse and Christian spirituality. You can see the first post here, and the second post here. I wrote these as a way to process some of what I’ve been noticing as I work with women in the Church who...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Apr 9, 2013 | Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
This post is my second in a series of three posts dealing with sexual abuse and Christian spirituality. In my first post I talked about ways that certain Christian messages tend to create stumbling blocks for those striving to heal from the trauma of abuse, and I...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Apr 8, 2013 | Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
This series of cross-posts by Hilary Jerome Scarsella originally appeared on the State of Formation Website. Recently, I’ve spent a lot time with Christian women striving to heal from abuse and from damaging messages they learned from their experiences of...
