Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up

by Tiffany Bluhm

Overview

"A welcome book offering an important wake-up call to the Christian community and beyond."—Gail Eubanks, Library Journal

Tiffany Bluhm wishes this wasn't her story to tell. Yet like many women today who are taking action against sexual harassment and sexual assault, it is. Bluhm explores the complex dynamics of power and abuse in systems we all find ourselves in. With honesty and strength, she tells stories of how women have overcome silence to expose the truth about their ministry and professional leaders—and the backlash they so often face. In so doing, she empowers others to speak up against abuses of power.

Addressing men and women in all work settings—within the church and beyond—popular author and podcast host Tiffany Bluhm sets out to understand the cultural and spiritual narratives that silence women and to illuminate the devastating emotional, financial, and social impact of silence in the face of injustice.

As readers journey with Bluhm, they will be moved to find their own way, their own voice, and their own conviction for standing with women. They'll emerge more ready than ever to advocate for justice, healing, and resurrection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587434785
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/16/2021
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	487,742
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Tiffany Bluhm is the author of She Dreams and Never Alone and their companion Bible studies. She is cohost of the podcast Why Tho and speaks at conferences and events around the world. Her work has been featured in World Vision magazine and on the YouVersion Bible app, the Hallmark Channel, and the Jenny McCarthy Show. She leads an engaged audience of 50,000 followers online and is committed to encouraging people of faith to live with conviction, substance, and grace. As a minority, immigrant woman with an interracial family, Bluhm is passionate about inviting all to the table of faith, equality, justice, and dignity. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Introduction 11

Part 1 Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth

1 Everything Is Just Fine 19

2 His Way or the Highway 34

3 Be Quiet 47

4 But He's Done So Much for Me 59

Part 2 How We Silence Women

5 What Do You Have to Lose? 73

6 The Questioning 86

7 Puppets of the Patriarchy 100

8 Look at Who I Am 111

Part 3 How Everyone Can Speak Up

9 Allies 125

10 It's Not Her Fault 139

11 He Is Not Indispensable 152

12 Believe Women 164

Notes 175

Editorial Reviews

03/01/2021

With this most recent work, author and sought-after speaker Bluhm (She Dreams; Never Alone) writes an examination of the way society views and oftentimes reviles women who are the victims of sexual abuse and assault. Bluhm looks at the current whys and hows concerning the ways we silence and demean women, as well as asserting that we all are responsible for speaking up and supporting victims when they choose to tell their stories. While Bluhm examines the soul-deadening effects of assault and abuse in the secular workplace, she also takes to task the religious hierarchy that protects perpetrators and condemns victims; she maintains that this is the antithesis of Jesus's teachings, which emphasize that women are equals in the Christian community and are to be believed and valued. Drawing from her ministry experience, the author tells how faith and justice are often intertwined. Bluhm's compelling arguments are given gravitas by recent, headline-grabbing cases in which the victims' abuse was shockingly twofold: first by the original perpetrators, and then by the very systems which were supposed to protect them. VERDICT A welcome book offering an important wake-up call to the Christian community and beyond.—Gail Eubanks, Univ. of Missouri, Springfield

Library Journal