The following is from Only God Can Heal the Wounded Heart by Arthur Edward Bulkley, Harvest House, 1995:

Across America and around the world, gatherings are taking place for the purpose of helping people to recover from the psychological traumas they have suffered. The concept is fostered by a multitude of twelve-step programs, secular psychologists and, surprisingly, a host of Christian counselors as well.

Therapeutic "experts" have built a lucrative industry around the recently invented term codependency. Others specialize in the treatment of eating disorders, depression, phobias, or substance abuse. Perhaps the most rapidly growing counseling specialty is dealing with "adult victims of childhood abuse." This label is troubling and confusing because problems that used to be seen as the normal frictions of daily family living are not often defined as abuse. Or, behavior that was once understood as sin is now excused as an addiction that has its origins in childhood abuse. Let me illustrate with actual case histories.

No one would have suspected that a Southern Baptist pastor and his wife near Dallas, Texas, had for years secretly abused their daughter as part of their satanic ritual worship. They seemed so normal. Lee and Jean Grady had maintained the outward appearance of respectable religious leaders for nearly forty years. They had photo albums and scrapbooks that appeared to show their daughter Gloria as a happy and normal child.

Suddenly, however, the story of their horrible deeds was exposed when their daughter entered THE MINIRTH-MEIER CLINIC IN RICHARDSON, TEXAS, for psychotherapy. Under the guidance of her therapist, Gloria accused her father of having beaten and raped her from the age of ten until she went away to college. Eventually she revealed that her mother, brother, grandfather, and other family members had also abused her and had murdered her three-year-old daughter as a sacrifice to Satan.

Gloria Grady said [these events] had been hidden from her for years in the clouds of her memory. But during therapy with a `Christian psychologist' who diagnosed her as having post-traumatic stress disorder, flashbacks of the horrors had come to her, and she had remembered. What she remembered made her never want to see her family again.

Lee and Jean Grady claim that they are innocent. They are supported by family members, present and former parishioners, medical records, photographs, and forensic evidence."

Accusations of satanic ritual abuse (SRA) have exploded in the United States during the past few years, and a surprising factor is that many of the allegations are coming from within the Christian community (Arthur Edward Bulkley, Only God Can Heal the Wounded Heart, Harvest House, 1995).