Something’s Not Right: Decoding Hidden Tactics of Abuse and Freeing Yourself From Its Power, Book Review

  Trigger warning, this book review covers the topic of abuse. This book addresses abuse of various kinds. Reader proceed with caution as needed. One of the things I appreciate most about Wade Mullen’s, Something’s Not Right: Decoding Hidden Tactics of Abuse and Freeing Yourself From Its Power, is how he emphasizes the confusing nature of abuse, especially for those in the midst of it or coming out of it. Although the book is a few years old, its content continues to be relevant today whether inside or outside religious settings and contexts. Mullen writes from the perspective and experience of a ...

Author Q&A: When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough: A Shooting Survivor’s Journey Into the Realities of Gun Violence

Today's post is an author interview with Taylor Schumann. Injured in a shooting in 2013 and left with wounds both visible and invisible, she weaves her own story into the larger conversation about gun violence in America in her newest book, When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough: A Shooting Survivor’s Journey Into the Realities of Gun Violence. She writes the truth of her own story, and the stories of the countless precious lives affected daily by the crisis of gun violence, to implore others to join her in meeting the suffering around us with whole-hearted attention. She writes to ask, simply, ...