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https://vasynod.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Statement-on-Abuse.png1280720Dear siblings in Christ, Our social media streams, tv and radio waves, podcasts, papers, and conversations brim with painful news. Again, and again, powerful people and institutions seem to enable and protect those who abuse [...]