Thanks for stopping by to learn more about the #MeTooReckoning Workshop. We believe there is a reckoning underway, and we want this new self-paced workshop to help you navigate it.
Access for the #MeTooReckoning Workshop NOW Available
The course is now available to you in a SELF-PACED format. You will have access to five videos, nearly 20 handouts, weekly activities, and practical ways to equip yourself and your congregation.
You can start your #MeTooReckoning Workshop today! We also are making available a student edition. In the #MeTooReckoning Course (regular edition and student), you receive:
- Ruth Everhartโs book, #MeToo Reckoning, shipped to you
- four pre-recorded video sessions
- plus a bonus video, โTrauma Informed Care.โ
- twenty handouts, including one chapter of Eileenโs book, Anatomy of a Schism
- and numerous ideas and resources.
Purchase the self-paced course
In the bonus content edition of the course, you get an additional book and other bonus content:ย Still, have questions? Fill out the form below, and we will do our best to respond!
- Ruth Everhartโs book, #MeToo Reckoningย shipped to you
- Eileen Campbell-Reedโs book,ย Anatomy of a Schism, shipped to you
- four pre-recorded video sessions
- plus a bonus video, โTrauma Informed Care.โ
- plus a BONUS video โSouthern Baptists and Complementarity: Creating Conditions for #ChurchTooโ
- twenty handouts
- 15% discount on Eileen’s book Pastoral Imagination as a bonus (in your first email).
- And numerous ideas and resources.
Purchase the BONUS Self-paced Course
The international edition of the #MeTooReckoning Workshop includes videos and handouts but no hard copy book. International customers can purchase Ruth’s book The MeToo Reckoning on ebooks.com.
- four pre-recorded video sessions
- plus a bonus video, โTrauma Informed Careโ
- twenty handouts, including one chapter of Eileenโs book, Anatomy of a Schism
- and numerous ideas and resources.
Purchase the INTERNATIONAL Self-paced Course
More about the #MeToo Reckoning Book
Just before the 2017 resurgence of the #MeToo movement, pastor and author Ruth Everhart published her memoir Ruined. Then in 2020, she followed it with The #MeToo Reckoning. In her latest book, she offers biblical and theological guidance, and she narrates stories of abuse, harassment, and ministry misconduct. Her book helps church leaders think about how to respond when the problem comes to their church or their church members.
A #MeTooReckoning Workshop for You
The #MeToo movement was founded by Tarana Burke in 2006. She worked with teen girls in Alabama. And she launched the phrase to remind people just how many women and girls could say โme tooโ when it came to sexual assault and violence. In 2017 the Twitter hashtag exploded on many social media platforms. It launched into a global movement that year and persists even now.
Far too many women in churches have experienced abuse, sexual misconduct, manipulation or rape. Far too many church members and their children do not find church to be a safe place. Thus #ChurchToo has come to express the ways that church leaders have abused their power and victimized untold numbers of children, youth, and adults. In other words we are surrounded by victim-survivors who need trauma-informed care. And we are living in systems that need to be changed so as to reduce harm.ย ย
We all have work to do.
In 2021, Ruth Everhart and I offered a four-week course online for church leaders. We really enjoyed collaborating! Thus, we decided to make space for ministers and lay leaders to take the problems of #MeToo and #ChurchToo seriously. Drawing on our own ministry experience and biblical, theological, and practical resources from a wide variety of sources, we assembledย the workshop. The sessions were both powerful and useful.
We decided it was time to offer it again.
Appreciations for the #MeTooReckoning Workshop
“Thanks for putting this together and your always excellent contributions!” ~Rev. H
“I appreciated the workshop and am enjoying the handouts for each session. I especially love Ruth’s book.” ~Pastor M
Still Wondering Why This is Still Important?
Southern Baptists continue feeling the shockwaves of their own reckoning for more than a year. The release of the Guidepost Solutions Report in May brought to light hundreds of known abuse cases, and also more than two decades of cover-up. At the SBC last week passing minimal reforms going forward.
The Episcopal Church is facing questions from survivors of abuse and harassment. Sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church has been coming to light for more than two decades in the US. Virtually every religious body in the United States and beyond has been put on notice. As more people are listening and believing survivors, a groundswell of support is building.
These and other stories are making headlines daily, so we believe it is past time for more education and empowerment to face it head-on.
