Is there A Cult of Silence in the Black Church?

THE CULT OF SILENCE. It is not your fault if you have been tricked and oppressed. The problem is if you continue to allow the abuse to fertilize this seed of sin through out the commmunity or to continue to abuse YOU! Remember Doris Wellington and her Book "The Church and the Cult of Silence" it is a must have and it offers healing from this attack on many within many churches and religions. Doris Wellington uses her own story to warn against the dangers of complacency in the church. When Doris Wellington was standing at the altar on the day of her wedding in 1978, she knew instinctively that she was making a mistake. She ignored family members who tried to tell her that she should reconsider her marriage to a young Pentecostal pastor, and she forged into a dysfunctional marriage that would eventually collapse after she discovered her husband led a secret gay life. Her book explores several case studies in which Protestant ministers marry women to conceal their homosexual lifestyle,church members who seduce teenagers and domestic violence among clergy marriages. "I heard he was gay, and I didn’t want to see my sister get hurt," said Nancy Burkhardt, Wellington’s sister who is now a fine arts professor at Paine College in Augusta, Ga. "But silence about that sort of thing was the norm in many Churches. Looking back on it now, I understand that the silence was a sign of naivete and denial." She talks in her book of when he threw the mattress on the ground and told her to sleep in the corner. Ms. Wellington has taken the opportunity to tell her story for healing. Writing this book was definitely a venue for her own healing, but it was also a way for me to help other people shake the stigma associated with sexual abuse." As a people we must understand this seed of deceit that has been growning among us like a weed. So lets talk tonight at 8 pm Oct 3, 2010 Sunday we will be on live at 8 pm so come. So hit us up if you can.