Resources

SNAP is a wealth of information about clergy-perpetrated abuse, including resources for those abused as adults. SNAP has a survivor support group for Orthodox Christians that meets monthly.

Restored Voices Collective

We are a group of women who have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of someone who had both a fiduciary duty to care for us and who held spiritual authority over our lives

The Hope of Survivors!

HelpHer (helpherresources.com)

About The Bristlecone Project - Sexual Abuse & Assault of Boys & Men | Confidential Support for Men (1in6.org)

Awake (awakecommunity.org)

Monthly webinars, education and survivor groups. Catholic

Zero Abuse Project

Training for faith-based communities and professionals, resources

Darkness to Light

Child abuse prevention and advocacy

Reclamation Collective

Help for those navigating religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and adverse religious experiences

Religious Trauma Institute

Resources, training and community

Survivors Agenda

A Collective of organizations addressing the needs of survivors

RAINN | The nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization

Together We Heal (togetherwehealcommunity.org

Grief, addressing grief in all forms and loss of community

Into Account

Justice, accountability and recovery in Christian contexts

GRACE (netgrace.org)

Godly response to abuse in the Christian environment

Helping Survivors

Videos

The Abuse of Power in the Church with Diane Langberg and Phil Monroe (youtube.com)

The Grooming Process: Sex with a pastor is never an affair. (youtube.com)

Dr Rocio Figueroa Alvear - Overcoming Silence - Women's Voices in the Catholic Abuse Crisis - YouTube

Podcasts

Holy/Hurt Podcast (holyhurtpodcast.com)

Hosted by Hilary McBride, addresses clergy abuse

Safe to Hope Podcast Transcripts Season One (helpherresources.com)

The Allender Center Podcast

Addressing spiritual abuse, sexual abuse

Podcast - Adam Young Counseling

Sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, engaging one's own story

Tears of Eden: Supporting survivors of Spiritual Abuse and Religious Trauma

Protestant perspective

OneVOICE (iamonevoice.org)

For survivors of sexual abuse- also offers support groups

Episode Archive | The Roys Report (julieroys.com)

Dr. Pooler Adult Clergy Abuse: It's Not An Affair. It's Abuse.

A presentation by Dr. Pooler at the Restore Conference in 2025

Episodes on clergy-perpetrated abuse

Of note:

Recovery & Empowerment: A Path Forward | The Roys Report (julieroys.com)

Restore Day 2: 'Borrow Hope' From Others Until Your Own Hope Restored (julieroys.com)

Dr. Diane Langberg: Understanding Adult Clergy Abuse | The Roys Report (julieroys.com)

Affair or Abuse? The Church's Hurtful Response | The Roys Report (julieroys.com)

Adult Abuse Survivors Are Often Treated As ‘Sinners,’ Threats to Church (julieroys.com)

Opinion: How I Came to Believe my “Affair” was Abuse (julieroys.com)

Is Misty Edwards A Victim? | The Roys Report (julieroys.com)

Truth & Consequences - The Second Wound

Home - Rachel on Recovery

Sexual abuse, trauma recovery

Why haven't Christian leaders learned what we all know about church sex abuse?

Blogs and interviews, some with Orthodox clergy and faithful

Interview Series with Scott Jacobsen

Gospel of Denial: How Churches Fail Clergy Abuse Survivors- Interviews with Bojan Jovanovich, Katherine Archer, Dr. Hermina Nedelescu and Dorothy Small

Dr. Hermina Nedelescu on Clergy Abuse

Katherine Archer on Clergy Abuse and SB 894

Melanie Sakoda

Dr. Hermina Nedelescu and Dorothy Small

Dr. Amos Guiora on Institutional Complicity and Legal Reform

Dr. David Pooler On Adult Clergy Sexual Abuse

Rev. J. Gregory Waynick

Leaders Do What's Right in a Sex Abuse Crisis
"Let's stop clergy sexual misconduct - before another scandal explodes"

Fr. Gregory "Get Rid of the Old Yeast: Responding to Clergy Sexual Misconduct"

Dr. Ellen Gvosdev: When the Unspeakable Happens