The abuse, which Moore references regularly in her work, came from outside the immediate family, but Moore is as deliberately nebulous about describing it in interviews as she is in books and videos. “I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.”īack then she wanted to keep the abuse as private as possible. “Any time something huge like that has happened to you, there really is not a lot of gray for people like us,” Moore says. Although her revelations about an abusive father position Moore to receive empathy and support as the object of masculine toxicity, in an earlier brush with greatness (2010) in the pages of Christianity Today, coverage of a recent book on insecurity also revealed that she had been abused as a child.įor example, Moore says, her own insecurity largely stemmed from the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. Two aspects of this recent media attention to Beth Moore are odd. It does work to Russell Moore’s advantage to portray the SBC this way since his outspokenness about politics during the Trump presidency cost him support from various sectors of the Convention. Russell Moore generally plays along and interviews Beth Moore delicately all the while underscoring how badly Southern Baptists treated her. According to one summary, Moore writes of her father that “No kind of good dad does what my dad did to me.” She also explains how she and her sister saved their parent’s marriage even when they suspected their father was cheating on their mother.įor someone for whom the abuse of women is a reason to drop what you’re doing, isn’t Moore here guilty of what she faulted the SBC leadership for doing - enabling an abusive father and husband in a co-dependent relationship? The interview comes after a story about her memoir in which she acknowledges her father’s abuse.
Why is her experience with abuse such a big deal right now? And why didn’t Russell Moore do more (along with editors at Christianity Today) to push Beth Moore to be fully candid about her past? Russell Moore’s interview with Beth Moore got me thinking.
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