She Said God Blessed Us: A Life Marked by Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Church

When Gail Hovey was a teenager, her local Presbyterian church hired Georgia, a seminary-trained Christian education director. Brilliant and charismatic, Georgia used the language of faith to seduce several of her students, swearing each to secrecy. When she eventually abandoned the others and focused on Gail, Gail believed herself uniquely blessed and for the next 15 years modeled her life on Georgia's—the seminary degree, the minister husband. The relationship had a profound and lasting in...