Aubrey Sampson

Aubrey Sampson is co-planter and teaching pastor of Renewal Church in West Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of The Louder Song: Listening for Hope in the Midst of LamentKnown: How Believing Who God Says You Are Changes Everything, and an upcoming kid’s book, Big Feelings Days: A Book About Hard Things, Heavy Emotions, and Jesus’ Love (all NavPress).

A Compassionate Response to Church Hurt

Our call is the same as it always has been: Be like Jesus, who, in every interaction with the vulnerable and abused—in every interaction with those who were undignified and commodified and objectified—Jesus offered compassion, dignity and new destiny.