Among hardest truths a survivor must confront, is how institutions promising safety often caused egregious harm. Spiritual communities preaching compassion, redemption, and justice – enabled abuse, protected perpetrators, and shamed victims into compliance. 

Turning tables is by no means a betrayal of faith, merely cleansing of institutions that chose image over integrity, dogma over dignity, and reputation over responsibility. As rot to sunlight, accountability does not destroy churches – it fortifies their foundations! Any system requiring silence to thrive is already spiritually bankrupt. The purpose of holding organizations accountable isn’t reprisal – it’s prevention. Bold refusal that wolves hide behind cloaks and sacred language. 

Religious institutions must be willing to:

• Name any harm without downplaying or spiritualizing it

• Publicly acknowledge patterns of abuse, not isolate them as “Moral failures” of individuals in question

• Cooperate fully with legal channels, not shield abusers via internal investigation/prayerful deflection

• Stop prioritizing “Restoration” of abusers over the safety and dignity of their victims

• Rebuild with survivor-informed reforms, not surface-level apologies

Too many churches have become expert at managing optics. Issuing press releases instead of confessions, they form “Restoration teams” for abusers while excommunicating the abused. Such count silence as discretion, call inaction wisdom, and their protection of predators “Grace.”

But grace without accountability is hardly amazing. An empty word losing face to complicity. 

Survivors deserve to have predators held to account – not passed off for “Judgement Day” or 7th heaven. Right here. Right now. Full court press. Because when churches protect their banner over a parishioner’s life, they no longer serve the idea of God. Only themselves. 

When survivors rise to demand justice, these beautiful souls are not being divisive. They’re doing the divine work of intervention – as cornerstone the builders rejected. 

“If deconstruction taught us anything, it’s that some walls must fall before a home can be saved.” 

– ReLOVution