Dear Churches: Stop Using NDAs and Other Silencing Strategies
Sunshine versus silencing. Light versus dark. Open versus sealed. Free versus gagged. There is a tension between each of these concepts that I think is woven throughout the Bible.
I recently had a conversation with Amy Fritz of the Untangled Faith podcast about the use of different types of silencing strategies — non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement agreements and clauses, protective orders, gag orders and other means to silence people — by churches, self-proclaimed “Christian” organizations, and other parties of faith.
[Read my NDA mega-thread on twitter that compiles articles, podcasts, and other resources on the use of NDAs in Christian organizations and generally]
This conversation came as a result of a series of articles I’ve written here on medium that identified a theme of silencing strategies being used in the court cases and generally involving Ramsey Solutions, Dave Ramsey’s financial empire. This was consistent with my own experience of being silenced by Dave Ramsey’s team via a legal gag order imposed on me in 2019 during my divorce from former Ramsey personality, Chris Hogan.
Read my series of articles on the Case(s) Against Dave Ramsey: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
