I am a victim of spiritual abuse. It’s taken 15 years to realise

A victim of spiritual abuse – but not at the hands of Fletcher or Smyth – shares her firsthand experience:

I am a victim of spiritual abuse. It’s taken 15 years after the events to recognise this – and only then because of recent events.

The pastor’s dear long-suffering wife confided in me that he was, effectively, having an affair with a deacon’s wife, spending each weekly ‘day off’ from pastoral work with this other woman.