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Boz Tchividjian

@BozT

Attorney advocate for abuse survivors, Founder of GRACE (@netgrace_org), Adjunct professor, Author & Speaker.

Florida, USA Katılım Şubat 2009
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Putting aside our “religious” work will often open our eyes & hearts to the beaten & bruised laying in the dirt who have given up hope.
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“Docility, receptivity, open-mindedness, and the eager, listening spirit of the little child — this is the polar opposite of the unteachable, satiated, closed heart of the Pharisee, and as the latter blocks the way to the kingdom, so the former opens its door.”
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“Jesus saw how much the Pharisees needed, and how unconscious of need they were. They did not want to learn; their minds were closed; their self-sufficiency was an absolute barrier to the message of Jesus.” Don’t be a Pharisee.
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“Jesus accepts as a disciple many a hearer whose confession of faith would satisfy few modern churches.” [Francis G. Peabody]
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“Jesus regards with extraordinary leniency some of the faults which the world most unqualifiedly condemns, and on the other hand judges with surprising severity much which the world lightly forgives or mistakes for excellence.” [Francis G. Peabody]
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“Has your abuser told you to delete messages, photos, or any other documentation of their actions? They may claim erasing these things will protect you. Do not believe them. The only reason someone urges you to destroy evidence is to protect themselves.” bozlawpa.com/resources/dont…
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All too often, abuse survivors tend to look through “rose-colored glasses” and overlook red flags when a Christian institution expresses interest in conducting an “independent investigation.” “You have, understandably, a trust in this institution, because you think because they’re Christian, that they’re going to do the right thing,” Tchividjian said. “And you need to at least take a step back and think about the possibility that maybe they’re not doing the right thing. Maybe they’re more concerned about themselves than you. And maybe they’re utilizing this trust and this hope that you have in the institution to protect themselves and to discourage you from taking further action.” roysreport.com/another-wheato…
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We’re 9 weeks into a 4 week war we won 8 weeks ago.
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“Jesus did not begin with a philosophy like that of the fourth gospel, or a theology like that of Paul, but with the personal problems of fisherman and publicans, of the doubting and sinning, the good and bad.” [Francis G. Peabody]
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When a child is sexually abused at a church event and the institution’s response is “we’d do nothing different” — that’s arrogance. An arrogance that protects institutions, not children.
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If you were sexually assaulted in California on or after January 1, 2009, you have until December 31, 2026 to file a civil claim against the abuser and any organization that failed to protect you. If you are ready to seek justice, BozLaw is here to provide experienced, compassionate legal guidance.
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The best part of this work is representing genuine heroes like S. Harper. “Boz and his team are exceptional. They handled my situation with genuine care and respect, took the time to truly understand me, and consistently checked in throughout the process. Boz fought hard on my behalf, and I am deeply grateful for his dedication, patience, and unwavering support.” [S. Harper - former client]
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One of the most beautiful lessons of Lent: “God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. There’s never been a time when God was not like Jesus. We haven’t always known this, but now we do.”
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I couldn’t have said it better…capturing the great tragedy that has unfolded here in this country. I am increasingly convinced that we’ve crossed the point of no return…and so few realize it.
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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“We are so thankful for Boz Law. They represented us and took on our case when every other law firm turned us away and made us feel that the neglect act towards our daughter was not worth pursuing accountability for. Boz and his team  made us feel like our family mattered and acted as our advocate during our trying time. Thank God for putting Boz Law in our lives and we are forever grateful for him and his team and the hard work they provided to get us justice and closure.” - [BozLaw client]
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“He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee whoever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbors. ‘This is what can happen if we adhere to the seductive adage, hate the sin but love the sinner.’” [B. Zahnd]
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“Just because something is in the Bible doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a Christlike idea. Just because Elijah did it doesn’t mean it’s something followers of Jesus should do. Sometimes the Bible is like a Rorschach test, telling us more about ourselves than about God.”
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“Wars of conquest, capital punishment, violent retribution, the institution of slavery, & women held as property are all “biblical,” but when seen in the light shining from the face of Christ, everything must be re-evaluated because Jesus is what God has to say!”
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