Jan 11, 2022
10 min read
The Betrayal of Evangelical Children
Uncovering the pain of repeated lies
It all started in a conversation with my spiritual director. I was sharing about some relational struggles in my family of origin in hope of hearing some helpful insight. But spiritual direction is not therapy and thank God for both. Instead, all he could give me was the word “betrayal.”
That 8-letter word weighed on me like a thousand-pound gorilla. It felt right even if it didn’t quite make sense why. While my first reaction was to rationally determine whether there has been a…
