{"id":985,"date":"2007-08-16T21:16:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T02:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2007-11-17T22:02:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T03:02:40","slug":"the-loss-of-a-good-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"The loss of a good blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past six months, one of the best religious blogs out there has been Speaking Truth to Power<\/a>. Written by the pseudononymous uugrrl, it chronicles her thoughts and feelings as someone who was a victim of clergy sexual misconduct. But now she has announced that she’ll be taking the blog down for personal reasons. You have a few more days to read her well-written posts on clergy sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

I’m going to miss uugrrl. In the past, I’ve been in churches that had suffered from clergy sexual misconduct. I discovered that clergy misconduct can poison an entire congregation for years — and I learned that misconduct can have a negative impact on everyone<\/em> in that congregation. Reading uugrrl’s blog has helped me to come to a better understanding of the evil of clergy sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with some critically important advice uugrrl offers to anyone who is a victim of clergy sexual misconduct in a Unitarian Universalist congregation (or in almost any denomination, for that matter):<\/p>\n

If you are a victim of UU clergy misconduct, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t report it…. To be clear, by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t report it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I mostly mean don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t file a formal complaint. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean you shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell anyone. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even okay in my opinion to tell the UUA [denominational headquarters], as long as you make it clear they do not have your permission to share your name or to consider you a complainant. Just do what feels safest. And be very careful. One good option is contacting Marie Fortune\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Institute.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past six months, one of the best religious blogs out there has been Speaking Truth to Power. Written by the pseudononymous uugrrl, it chronicles her thoughts and feelings as someone who was a victim of clergy sexual misconduct. But now she has announced that she’ll be taking the blog down for personal reasons. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-peace","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}