“Do I out my high school abuser?” she typed into the group chat on the night #ChurchToo was born. Years ago, when I first met Emily Joy, a college freshman at Moody Bible Institute, she was fresh off the evangelical assembly line. So we launched #ChurchToo, a Twitter hashtag that quickly drew out widespread stories of sexual abuse and harassment. For me, it was also the culmination of years of speaking out against and unlearning the strictures of evangelical purity culture. It was around the time I met Emily that my own Christian nightmare began.

Source: Huffington Post December 04, 2017 22:29 UTC