Thank you for writing this.

Sorry, Ms. Rutherford-Close, but that’s a pretty bad sign when “It comes in waves,” and “Over the years that I’ve been there there are many people who have accused him of many things.” Obviously the pastor is the common denominator in all those accusations, and if your conclusion is that the pastor must be a target of persecution because many different people at many different times have brought forth allegations of abuse, it sounds like you have been gaslit.