Online Conversation | Redeeming Power with Diane Langberg
On Friday, July 9th, we hosted psychologist and author Dr. Diane Langberg to discuss the themes in her book, Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church. Dr. Langberg who has been working with survivors of trauma and abuse, clergy, and caregivers for almost 50 years, desires to increase awareness and understanding of power and its abuse so those who have been abandoned by broken systems of power can be defended and protected.
She discussed the purposes, dynamics, systems, and proper place of power, as well as the ways in which it can deform and distort, noting that “our responses to the vulnerable expose who we are.” And she noted that while “much of Christendom today seems less interested in seeing as Jesus saw…and far more interested in gaining power,” there is also the invitation and opportunity before us to “cross divides, step out of high positions, and reach out with love to those who are vulnerable, whose power is little or trampled, bestowing benedictions as we go.” We hope you enjoy this conversation!
The song is “Hrepenenje” - by Jani Lechleiter. (Slovenian for “longing.”)
The painting is 'A shepherdess tending to her flock' by Anton Mauve, late 19th Century.
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Thank you for this incredibly helpful discussion. Diane is a gem. Well done to the interviewer also, for asking careful, honest and succinct questions and letting Dr. Langberg speak without interruption.
I know this comment is late but Dr. Langberg has brought me much healing over the past year. I can't read her books or hear her speak without.crying. She is the voice of truth for a huge audience of sheep nearly devoured by wolves in churches. Be Christ to us! I won't go back to the church. Praise God.for Dr. Langberg and her prophetic voice coupled with the compassionate voice of Jesus Christ. I heartily agree that along with the actual predators are.those compliant with them.
Such thoughtful questions from the interviewer - a really powerful and helpful dialogue.
I read the book "Out of the Dust, the story of an Unlikely Missionary" by Avis Goodhart. I recognized in her father the symptoms of PTSD. She, amazingly survived so much abuse. Maybe because she always knew the love of her father, both hers and her heavenly one. She did have to work through it. I've read so many biographies and autobiographies in which the the subjects had to do the hard work of getting through abuse of all kinds. I find that God gives so much strength. Thanks for this interview.
Thank you so much for this work and your clear words of what the missuse of power is all about. this should be teached in schools!!!
Thank you. Thank you.
"Make a tree bad and it's fruit will be bad..."
Thank you JESUS!! For TRUTH!!!😇🥰
"Shell shock" needs to be disassociated from PTSD. Dr Frederick Mott was the great British physician who recognized that so many of the British Tommies of World War I. were probably suffering from damage to the brain caused by explosive blast, and that the blast damage to the brain was the dominant cause of what we now call PTSD. This doesn't make PTSD any the less real, it certainly doesn't challenge that psychological trauma is of vast and often the only importance in triggering PTSD in many, whether military or civilian, but it does enlighten a lot of people who still have the often tragic view that people who have PTSD are "weak." Also, women who have been traumatized emotionally have often been beaten physically, and may be suffering PTSD which is caused in some measure by damage to the structure of the brain.
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Damage to the structure of tge brain, often happens without any Physical abuse. Traumatologists like Dr.Langberg know that the emotional abuse is: systemic, lasting and re-inforced by society and toxic church denominations like the Southern Baptist Church as well as other groups tgat are having difficulty getting honest about ecclesiastical abuses of power.
Thank you! ❤
Amen
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