by Anonymous | Jul 10, 2018 | Family & Friends, WGA Blog
It’s been over a decade since we learned that our son is gay. You’d think I’d be used to it by now. I’m not. I’m sitting in Sunday school and a man several rows back brings up the “sin of homosexuality” and declares that the church isn’t “hard enough” on that sin. It...
by Roger Jones | Jul 3, 2018 | Addiction, WGA Blog
In his book Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction, Patrick Carnes introduces the “addiction cycle” as it relates to sex addiction. He shares 4 components to this cycle. They are preoccupation, ritualization, sexual compulsivity, and despair. For this...
by Scott Kingry | Jun 26, 2018 | WGA Blog
Echo Chamber—A situation in which people only hear opinions of one type, or opinions that are similar to their own—Cambridge Dictionary Definition In the Comfort Zone If you’re like me, you like to be comfortable. It’s nice and easy being in a space where everyone...
by Mary Heathman | Jun 19, 2018 | WGA Blog
In Part 2 of this series, I talked about three kinds of loneliness. For a bit of discussion on the first two, Simple Disconnection and Absolute Loneliness, click here. Existential Loneliness The third kind is Existential Loneliness, defined as the “unexplainable...
by Roger Jones | Jun 12, 2018 | WGA Blog
Introduction: I originally wrote this article soon after the Orlando Shooting in June of 2016. Today is the two year anniversary of that horrible day. The tragedy has moved further into the past but more like it have happened in the time since. We are called to...
by Roger Jones | Jun 5, 2018 | WGA Blog
In conjunction with the Survivors of Abuse group we periodically offer here at WGA, I have read and re-read Dan Allender’s book, The Wounded Heart. In the prologue of his text, Allender addresses a few points about ineffective paths to healing for abuse survivors....
