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The Image I Reflect: Healing From Sexual Violence
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Throughout the month, Cedarville University’s Title IX office would like to challenge the campus community to examine the ways in which we are sometimes less than loving as we focus on this theme:
“The Image I Reflect: Conversations About Respect, Consent, Power, and Healing”
This theme is meant to challenge us to look in the mirror and consider our beliefs and behaviors, to reflect on the ways that we are tempted to act toward another that could diminish their sexual dignity or objectify them.
Our focus this week is on healing.
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The Image I Reflect: What to Do if You've Been Assaulted
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Throughout the month, Cedarville University’s Title IX office would like to challenge the campus community to examine the ways in which we are sometimes less than loving as we focus on this theme:
“The Image I Reflect: Conversations About Respect, Consent, Power, and Healing”
This theme is meant to challenge us to look in the mirror and consider our beliefs and behaviors, to reflect on the ways that we are tempted to act toward another that could diminish their sexual dignity or objectify them.
Our focus this week is: What to Do if You've Been Assaulted.
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The Image I Reflect: Recognizing Power Differentials
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Throughout the month, Cedarville University’s Title IX office would like to challenge the campus community to examine the ways in which we are sometimes less than loving as we focus on this theme:
“The Image I Reflect: Conversations About Respect, Consent, Power, and Healing”
This theme is meant to challenge us to look in the mirror and consider our beliefs and behaviors, to reflect on the ways that we are tempted to act toward another that could diminish their sexual dignity or objectify them.
Our focus this week is on power differentials.
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The Image I Reflect: Considering Consent From a Biblical Worldview
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Throughout the month, Cedarville University’s Title IX office would like to challenge the campus community to examine the ways in which we are sometimes less than loving as we focus on this theme:
“The Image I Reflect: Conversations About Respect, Consent, Power, and Healing”
This theme is meant to challenge us to look in the mirror and consider our beliefs and behaviors, to reflect on the ways that we are tempted to act toward another that could diminish their sexual dignity or objectify them.
This week's focus is on consent — a difficult theme for a place like Cedarville to grapple with.
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The Image I Reflect: Respect
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Throughout the month, Cedarville University’s Title IX office would like to challenge the campus community to examine the ways in which we are sometimes less than loving as we focus on this theme:
“The Image I Reflect: Conversations About Respect, Consent, Power, and Healing”
This theme is meant to challenge us to look in the mirror and consider our beliefs and behaviors, to reflect on the ways that we are tempted to act toward another that could diminish their sexual dignity or objectify them.
Our first focus is on RESPECT.
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Spiritual Abuse in Relationships
Today’s post is from Celeste Hurley, Cedarville University's Confidential Advocate from Family Violence Prevention Center.
Philippians 2:3-5 “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another,
have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:”
One tactic that is used to gain power and control in a relationship is spiritual abuse. Spiritual abuse happens when someone uses spiritual or religious beliefs to hurt, scare, or control you. This could be accomplished through forcing someone to follow a particular religious script, restricting or mocking someone's beliefs, or using beliefs to limit and control the other person. This additionally impacts a person by isolating them from who Christ is and what it means to be loved in a genuine and noncontractual way.
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What God Says to a Victim of Coercive Control
As helpers, friends, and fellow image-bearers, the faith community needs to come alongside a person who is the victim of coercive control/abuse and use words and actions that show God’s heart to them.
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The Heart of Coercive Control
“I do what I do because I want what I want.”
– paraphrase of James 4:1
Pastor and author (and Cedarville University grad!) Chris Moles has written extensively about the heart of abuse. What does he say is behind the heart of an abusive individual?
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The Danger of Coercive Control
Coercive control can happen in any dating relationship. But what is coercive control, and why is it important for the body of Christ to understand it?
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Think Before You Click: Using Dating Apps
Dating apps have become popular among college students, but are they safe to use? Is it possible to use them in a God-honoring and self-protecting
way? It is, but you should follow important safety guidelines.
Let's start with two general principles:
- Know the general reputation of a dating app before you sign up. Not all dating apps are created equally in standards of conduct and the culture of participation. There are some apps out there that wisdom would tell you to not even sign up and get started with a group that is not likely to be edifying.
- Make sure you are emotionally ready for a relationship. As an image-bearer, you are valuable and do not need anyone else to complete you. If you are not ready to date and navigate a relationship, that is OK. The best thing you can do to protect yourself is to not step into online relationship spaces while you are in a season of healing or when personal growth should be the priority.
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