Justice is the final stage of healing.

And this is where we have so much work to do.

But for justice to happen, we have to have leaders and institutions that can say, yes, this happened, it's real, the injuries are profound and deep, and we're going to, I'm getting so emotional here, we're going to make it right.

We're going to step in and make it right.

We're going to fix it.

We're going to make it better.

We're going to help you heal.

That's where we're missing it, folks. So I've got about 30 minutes and I'm going to attempt to give you a lot of information about what is adult clergy, sexual abuse so you can better understand it.

And I know already that there are multiple survivors in the room who've experienced this.

So I'm really hoping that not only does this help you see

yourself and understand your experience and just to know that other people see and understand

your experience, but that it's healing and that you'll actually be refreshed.

That's kind of sounding odd because this is a pretty heavy topic.

But we're going to go through this and hopefully make some sense of this.

So what I'm going to cover is I'm going to give a little bit of overview of church history

and you'll, a bit of church history talking about gender and power. We'll talk a little bit about

clericalism. I'm going to define it. What is adult clergy, sexual abuse? I'm going to talk about

ministry because it's actually an unregulated profession.

So we'll talk briefly about that because all these are contextual pieces that sort of create this

phenomenon of adult clergy, sexual abuse. Talk about the impact on victims, you know, what actually

happens. And by doing that, I'm going to look at some selected highlights from a national study

that I had done actually a decade ago.

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