The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church’s Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct Audiobook

Quotes

• “In her remarkable clarion call for change, Ruth Everhart reminds religious leaders tempted to view #MeToo as a dismissible modern political movement that variations of ‘me too’ have echoed off the walls of the church since its foundation.”

  — Linda Kay Klein, author of Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free)

• “Everhart’s hard-won insights into the ways church leadership has failed to protect against the wolves in our fold make this book challenging but necessary reading.”

  — David Williams, pastor and author of When the English Fall

• “Pulling back the curtain on the mishandling of sexual abuse within Protestant churches, this incisive work from Presbyterian pastor Everhart boldly calls for communal repentance and change…Everhart’s unsparing analysis will be helpful for both ministers and lay readers who are concerned about sexual abuse.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “The #MeToo Reckoning is a critical warning shot across the bow of Christendom that I pray will help wake us up before it’s too late.”

  — Boz Tchividjian, abuse attorney and founder, GRACE

• “Boldly calls for communal repentance and change.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Ruth Everhart diagnoses the unchecked power, patriarchy, and shallow forms of forgiveness that plague many Christian communities grappling with abuse. She also points to the cure: a better, more biblical practice of justice for victims. May this book ensure that more victims’ cries for justice are finally heard.”

  — Katelyn Beaty, author of A Woman’s Place

• “Ruth Everhart writes with great insight and passion. She shines a steady, penetrating light on sexual abuse in the church. Alas, this book is entirely necessary.”

  — Neal Plantinga, author of Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be