When he was fifteen, Roger Sabourin of Medicine Hat, Alberta, went through one of the worst experiences imaginable for a young teen: sexual abuse at the hands of a clergy member. Devastated by the experience but fearing what would happen if he went public with the crime, Roger chose to remain silent, keeping his hurt and grief to himself for the...

A teenage runaway peers from the second floor bedroom window. She lives at the clubhouse of a biker gang. A pasture dressed with wild grass and stately evergreens stretches out before her view. Though she sees the restful beauty, she's not truly admiring it. She's lost in her memories of the last two years. The window has become a mirror to her life. Barb...

I remember when my brother, Jim, left home. I came from an able, happy family, but this did not stop us from having problems. I was born in Kisumu, the third largest town in Kenya. We were a close family of eight children–three brothers and five sisters–of which I am the youngest. When I was about 11 years old I went to a boarding school,...

I had an "attitude." I'm sure you've heard that phrase before, but to me it was real. Only I didn't recognize it at the time. I come from a family of six children and I am the second youngest child. My parents started our family in their early twenties and my younger brother was born when Mom was forty-five. Dad was fifty-six. There were seventeen...

How close I came to making a total wreck of my life I'll probably never know. When I went to work for the U.S. Government, I met Al Larson at the USO. Within six months we were married and on our way to a naval base in California. I was 18. Although I had been raised to be "religious," my husband had no such training. He was a good man, but he...

I thought indulging in certain sexual practices was harmless and just a “normal thing that kids do”.  I started masturbating and looking at pornography when I was in my teens. Although I grew up in a home that believed in God and went to a school that taught about God, I thought that these sexual practices  would give me the satisfaction that...

Since you first put your faith in Christ, you've seen some significant changes in your life. You may feel you no longer need: to binge to drink to compete to control to take drugs to gain others' approval to be perfect to lie to cheat to resent to go to porn sites to be promiscuous... In order to fill up the void inside,...