What are the telltale signs of spiritual abuse? And once you've been subjected to it, how do you heal?

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's.

And on this podcast, we're rolling out the first of 11 talks from this year's Restore Conference.

This was an amazing gathering of survivors of church hurt and abuse, as well as pastors and

Christian leaders, wanting to better minister to these survivors.

As one speaker commented, Restore is more like a restorative community than a conference,

and there's really nothing that

quite compares to being there in person. That said, we had some incredibly powerful and eye-opening

talks, and one of those talks you're going to hear today. The talk is on recognizing and

healing from spiritual abuse, and the person speaking is Ken Garrett, someone who knows about spiritual abuse

firsthand. Ken and his family were members of an abusive church in Oregon, which turned out to be a

cult. After escaping the cult in the mid-1990s, Ken went on to complete graduate research on

spiritual abuse, and he created this spiritual abuse form for education or safe.

This is a bimonthly meetup with Christian and non-Christian survivors of spiritual abuse to

connect and support each other. Ken also is the pastor of Grace Church in Portland, and he's the author

of In the House of Friends, Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse

in Christian Churches. Ken also is a warm and gentle soul, who I'm proud to call a friend,

and I'm so excited to share his talk with you. But first, I'd like to thank the sponsors of this

podcast, Judson University, and Mark Orta Barrington. If you're looking for a top-ranked Christian University, providing a caring community and an

excellent college experience, Judson University is for you.

Judson is located on 90 acres, just 40 miles west of Chicago, in Elgin, Illinois.

The school offers more than 60 majors, great leadership opportunities,

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