While this book's title seems to imply that it understands people who have been abused by churches, it's misleading. It's a thinly-disguised means of preaching and evangelizing for a Biblical God/Jesus that churches don't really represent. It talks very little about the abuses of churches. I do not recommend this book. It does not explore the topic at all. I tore it up half way through and put it out in the trash where it belongs.