Highlights (tweets) from Ellen Dykas’ plenary session tonight: “A woman once told me that covenant women don’t struggle with these things. She was wrong.” “Our souls are bent in such a way as to lead us to disordered living.” “Broken-hearted women do broken-hearted things.” “Our women are struggling with secrecy; especially our ministry leaders.” “In my 6 years at Harvest, I’ve only met 4 or 5 women who haven’t been sexually abused/misused. I can count them on one hand.”   “We are all bent toward sin. We have all tried to find life where there is no life.” “Does the church have anything to say? The world is so loud and persuasive.”…

** Please note: At one point in this LiveBlog, Ellen refers to the testimony of an ex-porn star. I just checked and apparently I heard (and typed) the name wrong and linked to the wrong website. Sorry about that! Ellen referred to Shelley LUBBEN (not Ruben) and that website is: https://www.shelleylubben.com. (Please view with caution as the content is obviously redemptive—helping people to get out of the porn industry and out of porn addiction—but due to the topic, not appropriate for all ages.) ** Also: I mis-typed two lines in the LiveBlog:   Where it says “Our bodies are bent in such a way as to lead us to disordered living,” it should…

I know that many of you are not on Twitter and it may feel daunting to click on the “replay” mode of the LiveBlogs, so here are some of my favorite lines from the first plenary session of today’s PCA Women’s Leadership Conference. (These are the lines I tweeted @tarabarthel @pcacep #pcalt.) BTW–The last two quotes (and the title of this post) are like a punch in my gut. I gasp at the honesty and rawness of what Susan Shepherd shared. She could only do so if she were assured of her forgivenss and her standing in Christ. And she is! I truly believe that the ripples of her testimony will…