Mega Church Ministers To Women

The leaders of mega churches have come under a lot of scrutiny recently. We had the Ted Haggard debacle last year. And over the last month or two we've written here at First Wives World about the case of Juanita Bynum and Thomas Weeks, the married ministers who are getting a divorce because Bynum accused Weeks of spousal abuse.

So anytime I hear about religious leaders trying to take moral high ground on issues like marriage and divorce, I take it with a grain of salt, to say the least. And that leads me to something I saw about a mega church in Texas that's holding a women's retreat, geared at helping women deal with divorce, abuse and other challenges that occur in relationships. This church has done men's retreats intended to help guys strengthen their marriages.

I guess you don't go to an event like this unless you're a religious person — a believer. I just don't know that I want my relationship advice served up with a side order of religious dogma. To their credit, the organizers of this event acknowledge the Bynum-Weeks case. They even admit that they've known of abusive relationships in their families and in their church. So apparently all that religion doesn't keep this sort of thing from happening.

Hey, if this works for some people, more power to them. But it's definitely not for me.

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