March is Women’s History Month, a time meant to honor the women whose leadership and sacrifice helped build our institutions. Yet in many churches today, the very women who sustained ministries for decades now sit quietly in pews or remain at home while inexperienced leadership rises around them. When seasoned voices are replaced with convenient loyalty, the church does not move forward. It begins to lose its memory, its balance, and ultimately the sound doctrine that once he

Thank you for standing on the record. Tonight, 181 individuals registered to listen to the reading of the Official Transcript from the December 12th Evidentiary Hearing. One hundred and eighty one people chose documentation over rumor. Record over rhetoric. Facts over noise. The transcript is the transcript. You heard it for yourselves. No summaries. No spin. No interpretation. Just sworn testimony entered into the record. Truth does not require embellishment. It requires the

Thesis Elder financial exploitation within religious institutions is a critical public health issue because it (1) inflicts profound psychological and financial harm on vulnerable older adults, (2) constitutes a serious breach of ethical and fiduciary duty by trusted leaders, and (3) exposes significant gaps in elder protection laws and reporting systems that leave victims without adequate safeguards. This Matters for Public Health Financial exploitation is the illegal or imp