Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note: On Researcher Positionality and Responsibilities
Introduction: From Proverbs of Ashes to Invention for Faithful Deliberation
1. Naming Those Sins: A Brief History of Rules, Boundaries, and Responses
2. Wake Up, Sleepers: Cheap and Costly Rhetorical Grace Before #ChurchToo
3. More Than Platitudes: Casuistically Tightening Forgiveness
4. Letters to Their Brothers: Southern Baptist Women and a Rhetoric of Reconciliation
5. A Fellowship of Survivors: Archiving Abuse, Inviting Healing, and Drawing Lines
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index