Blasphemy

[pastor's wife]

Historian, that's terrible that someone did that to you. Those sorts of allegations were going around my daughter's small Christian school too. All those high standards about clothes and music sure didn't do anything to change the unrighteousness of her heart; that takes the Holy Spirit.

You said she confessed to you; did she also go back to those she'd gossiped to and told them the truth?

I wish someone she'd whispered to had had the Christian integrity to tell her that maligning and backbiting were expressly forbidden in Scripture and that she was in sin. Maybe someone did. But my guess is that you're more apt to get rebuked at BJU for walking on the grass than for being a slanderer.