06/19/2025
At the crossroads of personal rupture and globalreckoning, this book chronicles one woman’s journeyfrom the silence of child/clergy sexual abuse to speakingat the United Nations. In prose both raw and luminous,the author traces her battle escaping an abusivemarriage after her public disclosure of childhood abuse,and her unlikely ascent through Harvard Divinity Schoolto a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh.Woven through these pages are the voices that steadiedher—David F. Holland, her brother, God, and ancestors—and the convictions that drive her: that religiousinstitutions must be held to account, that parish archivesbelong to the people they record, and that healing is aright, not a privilege. Moving between the LDS and Italian Catholic hierarchies, she exposes systems that prize reputation over moral ethics, even as she insists on staying in the “trenches” to help remake them. Partmemoir, part manifesto, this book invites readers into aspiritual commons where transcendence is shared, notgated; where genealogies mend broken stories; andwhere the long-suppressed testimonies of survivors bendthe moral arc toward justice. It is, ultimately, a call tolisten, believe, and act.
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At the crossroads of personal rupture and global reckoning, this book chronicles one woman's journey from the silence of child/clergy sexual abuse to speaking at the United Nations. In prose both raw and luminous, the author traces her battle escaping an abusive marriage after her public disclosure....
