Church Sex Abuse
Sight-Seeing: Why haven’t Christian leaders learned what we all know about church sex abuse?
When I was in high school, and still underage, my health teacher tried to seduce me. Right there in class, in the normal chaos between bells, he rubbed my legs and whispered an invitation in my ear. I thought it was hilarious and gross. A typical teenager who felt more grown-up than I was, I never reported it to the school or to authorities. In the culture I grew up in, I was made well aware of what we then called “dirty old men”. I shrugged it off. Some years later, when I better understood the gravity of such abusive behaviour, I wrote about the experience in an essay published by my local newspaper. I didn’t name the teacher or my large suburban public school, but a diligent school board member read my essay, did a little digging to find out which school it was and called me to ask the name of the teacher. I gave the teacher’s name, but by then he was retired – or dead, I don’t remember – so there was not much that could be done. (The school board member had actually suspected a different teacher, which was sobering.) (Sight5/30/25) READ MORE>>>>>
When I was in high school, and still underage, my health teacher tried to seduce me. Right there in class, in the normal chaos between bells, he rubbed my legs and whispered an invitation in my ear. I thought it was hilarious and gross. A typical teenager who felt more grown-up than I was, I never reported it to the school or to authorities. In the culture I grew up in, I was made well aware of what we then called “dirty old men”. I shrugged it off. Some years later, when I better understood the gravity of such abusive behaviour, I wrote about the experience in an essay published by my local newspaper. I didn’t name the teacher or my large suburban public school, but a diligent school board member read my essay, did a little digging to find out which school it was and called me to ask the name of the teacher. I gave the teacher’s name, but by then he was retired – or dead, I don’t remember – so there was not much that could be done. (The school board member had actually suspected a different teacher, which was sobering.) (Sight5/30/25) READ MORE>>>>>