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The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse is unavailable, but you can change that!

You may think you don’t know anyone who has been sexually abused, but the statistics indicate otherwise. The Wounded Heart is an intensely personal and specific look at this most “soul deadening” form of abuse. Personal because it may be affecting you, your spouse, a close friend or neighbor, or someone you know well at church; and specific because it goes well beyond the general issues and...

and rebellion against the Creator. The categories we consider sin in many cases exclude other elements that equally embody the commitment to find life apart from relationship with God. That commitment involves subtle and noxious interplay of shame and contempt. Contempt is best understood in its operation. Consider how you handle the loss of your car keys or cope with forgetting an important date. What are the words that you utter when you realize you’ve done something stupid or
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