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Why James Dobson’s Article Is So Useful to Predators | Life-Saving Divorce This article explains why predators find James Dobson’s father-forgiveness advice useful: it minimizes cruelty, redirects blame, and pressures victims to adapt to harm.

Pastors being discovered in emotional and/or sexual relationships with staff or congregants, sadly, is not a new thing. It’s likely happening down the road from most of us. Gratefully, how we are talking about it is a new!

Thanks to psychological research, we now know how deeply power and control dynamics run, so we can better support victims of clergy sexual abuse.

📌 fyi: Nobody is having a “consensual affair” with their pastor. Instead, they are being victimized and abused by power and platform in the name of God.