(ChurchLeaders) “There are times in our lives where abusers take hold of the pen of our story, and when that happens, you fear turning another page,” says Dr. Wade Mullen. Speaking at Julie Roys’ Restore Conference last November, Mullen offered specific, practical insights on how to recognize patterns of spiritual abuse in evangelical organizations.
Mullen is a professor, researcher, and victims advocate whose focus has been on how evangelical institutions manage the opinions others are forming about them “in the wake of an image-threatening event.” What’s more, Mullen himself experienced spiritual abuse in a church community over a period of years.