Evangelist Kay Warren, an author and co-founder of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, has said that her very conservative upbringing, combined with being molested as a little girl and being exposed to pornographic magazines, led to a good deal of sexual confusion in her youth.
Warren, who is promoting her book, Sacred Privilege, opened up in an interview with Christian Today about some of the dark experiences she had growing up.
“I was molested as a little girl. I can’t hide behind that and I am the one that has to take responsibility,” said Warren, who joined the #MeToo conversation in October, when many other Christian women shared their stories of sexual assault and abuse on social media.
She said that she learned resilience, however, and the ability to “hold on in the harder times,” as it “allows me to be a much more effective minister for Christ when I am spiritually healthy. Ministry is hard and if we are going to last we have to look in the mirror and take responsibility for growing close to Jesus.”
Warren, who is the wife of megachurch pastor Rick Warren, talked about growing up with “very conservative” parents.
“Conservative in every way that was possible in the U.S. in the 1960s and ’70s to the place of if a…
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