It says a lot that people are still posting here and that there are people who have posted for the first time. Many speak of being grateful to have found the forum and have been reassured to find that they are not alone in having negative and sometimes very damaging experiences through the church. I am so, so sad that a church has ignored the wellbeing of its members,driven people away, cut
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Welcome back #thisisme. Apologies that I didn't respond to your earlier posts directly - and I'm sure no-one thinks your posts were at all rude. Many of us had to work up the courage to post here and one of the really good things to get out of reading and sharing is to find out, as you say, that you are not alone. I was staggered by the extent of the damage - both in numbers and degr
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Welcome escapedtofrance I haven't looked at the site for quite a while now and had thought folk had stopped posting. It's easy to forget that the church is still going and that there are still people gettting hurt and leaving it and maybe not coming across this site ftill much later. I didn't come across it till about 3 or 4 years ago. I know people find reassurance reading abou
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You are right, Jock - we were at Glasgow at the same time and knew each other fairly well. When I started attending, it was in Partick Burgh Hall on Friday nights and somewhere in the centre of Glasgow on Sunday. I also remember Wednesday nights I think and then Saturday evenings at the Smiths in Burnside. Later on - Rotherwood Ave in Knightswood, as you say.I also went to EK for a short while .
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Jock Good to hear from you and read your honest and well-balanced comments. I remember you with great fondness and you were one of those I had in mind in my previous post (page 146) when I mentioned older people who had a lot to offer and were overlooked (I know you were still young at that point but you were a longer term member who seemed to suddenly be sidelined ). I remember your humour
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I came across this site a couple of years ago but wasn't sure about posting on it. Seeing that it had some fairly recent posts, I thought I would register and post a little of my experience. It made me very sad to read posts about people suffering emotional and spiritual abuse during their time in the church. I was involved with the church for around 20 years and was one of the folk who le
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