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To Heal or Harm Empowers survivors to interpret Scripture in healing ways while unlearning harmful biblical perspectives.
Scripture plays an unique and profound...
Religion and Intimate Partner Violence Intimate partner violence is a complex, ugly, fear-inducing reality for large numbers of women around the world. When violence exists...
Domestic Violence In addressing men-on-women violence, Domestic Violence: Identification and Restoration provides a look into the lives of the men who are...
Tools for Ministry Leaders to Help Victims of Abuse The issue of spousal abuse, especially against women, has become a silent epidemic within Christian environments. The church is called...
Eve, Where Are You?: Confronting Toxic Practices against the Advancement of Women Without question, having competent women in leadership can certainly enhance the vitality of any organization. Sadly, too often women are...
For the Love of Women Despite the undeniable progress for women and girls in the 20th and 21st centuries, misogyny is still alive and well...
Created to Thrive Discover How To Cultivate An Abuse-Free Community
Created To Thrive brings together the voices of experts and faith leaders to...
When Love Hurts “Every woman who is struggling to understand the mistreatment she is experiencing in her relationship should begin by reading [this]...
The Verbally Abusive Relationship In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread...
Veiled and Silenced Weaving together evidence from sociolgy, anthropology, history, and biblical studies, this book shows that patriarchal and hierarchial views of gender...
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse In a breakthrough book first published in 1991, the authors address the dynamics in churches that can ensnare people in...
The Struggle to Stay Evangelical Christianity is often thought of as oppressive to women. The #MeToo era, when many women hit a breaking point...
She Deserves Better What if the goal of raising a Christian girl was about more than keeping her virginity intact? What if it...
Sexual Abuse by Clergy Clergy sexual abuse is a horrible reality. These essays reveal that between ten and twenty percent of clergy offend against...
Is It My Fault? "The statistics are jarring. One in four women and one in six men are or will be victims of sexual...
Responding to Abuse in Christian Homes Domestic abuse is a horror. It lurks beneath the surface of our collective existence, sometimes raising its ugly head where...
Refugio del abuso Hay esperanza para la mujer que ha sido maltratada. Nancy Nason-Clark y Catherine Clark Kroeger conocen el dolor de la...
Men’s Work in Preventing Violence Against Women Promote effective partnerships between men and women to end domestic violence! Men's Work in Preventing Violence Against Women examines the...
Mending the Soul Student Edition For teenagers who have experienced any kind of abuse, abandonment, or family dysfunction, the lingering pain can leave them feeling...
Let My People Go: a Call to End the Oppression of Women... Patriarchy (the male domination of women) is an oppressive cultural norm with a history that predates Christianity. Fortunately, it is...
Forgotten Girls: Stories of Hope and Courage All over the world, women and girls face troubles such as starvation, displacement, illiteracy, sexual exploitation and abuse. Kay Marshall...
Families Where Grace Is in Place A guide to developing a grace-filled marriage and raising creative, contented, capable children without legalism or manipulation.
The Emotionally Destructive Marriage You can’t put it into words, but something is happening to you. Your stomach churns, your heart aches, and the...
Divorce and Remarriage in the Church Will God allow me to divorce my abusive husband? Would it be a sin if I remarried? Divorce and remarriage...
The Courage Coach Through her book, The Courage Coach, Ashley Easter brings her life experience and training to those who have lived with...
Breaking the Silence A handbook on domestic violence from a spiritual perspective, for clergy, parish nurses, and others. A handbook about domestic violence...
Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife Ruth Tucker recounts a harrowing story of abuse at the hands of her husband, a well-educated, charming preacher no less,...
Battered Into Submission Each year three to four million women are severely assaulted by their husbands, ex-husbands or boyfriends. Battery is the single...
Am I Sleeping with the Enemy? When a boy cries, his father trains him in the way of the ancients. He is taught to ""man up,""...
Accepted in the Beloved Are you struggling with fully accepting that God loves you? If you or someone you know has suffered abuse, you...
Abuse of Christian Women in India In 12 Biblical Studies on Equality of Man and Woman Jane McNally, who spent most of her life in India,...
10 Lies Men Believe 10 Lies Men Believe is a compassionate but confrontational look at the reasons why so many Christian men today are...
Remembering Antônia Teixeira Uncover the truth about the scandal that shook the Texas Baptist community, buried for over a century.
Desenmascaremos El Abuso Durante años, el consejero bíblico Darby Strickland ha servido a mujeres en matrimonios opresivos. Ahora escribe a cualquiera que quiera...
El Abuso Domestico: Reconoce, Responde, Rescata Que esperanza hay cuando el matrimonio de un ser querido es abusivo
Un conyuge que busca controlar y dominar...
El Trauma "Darby Strickland helps us to understand trauma and its effects-and, drawing from Psalm 121, to become trustworthy guides who restore...
El Abuso Domestico: Ayuda Para Las Victimas Que caracteriza tu matrimonio
El matrimonio es un lugar para entregarse de manera sacrificial, por lo que un conyuge...
Women, Abuse, and the Bible Why are spouse and child abuse so frighteningly common in the church? According to the findings of this book’s contributors,...
We Too "Timely and necessary...This book is not only a warning. It is an opportunity. An opportunity to live out the gospel...
Trauma: Caring for Survivors "Darby Strickland helps us to understand trauma and its effects-and, drawing from Psalm 121, to become trustworthy guides who restore...
Strengthening Families and Ending Abuse Strengthening families of different varieties and ending abuse in the myriad of forms through which it surfaces is God's way...
Push Back the Dark Adults in your church, small group, or other Christian organization are silently suffering the tragic consequences of having been sexually...
Prey Tell Tiffany Bluhm wishes this wasn't her story to tell. Yet like many women today who are taking action against sexual...
Opening the Door A critical interdenominational resource for Christian pastors and counselors seeking to prevent domestic violence. A must-have, step-by-step resource for every...
No Place for Abuse In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, Catherine Clark Kroeger and Nancy Nason-Clark share with readers a further ten years...
The #MeToo Reckoning The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse in every sphere of society, including the church. But all too often, churches...
The Long Journey Home Maybe the only thing new about sexual abuse is quality discussion from several professions (psychology, theology, and pastoral care). Here...
Is it Abuse? "Providing practical tools and exercises, counselor Darby Strickland shows how anyone can recognize clues suggesting abuse, identify oppressive behavior, and...
In Our Backyard This book is the primer on human trafficking in North America. In recent years, Americans have woken up to the...
The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women In recent years the issue of domestic abuse and violence has gained a lot of attention as the extent of...
Gender, Violence, and Justice Gender, Violence, and Justice is a volume of collected essays by an expert in the field of violence against women...
Female Identity Formation and Response to Intimate Violence This book is a vital resource for intervention programs, educators, social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and survivors of intimate...
Ending Violence in Teen Dating Relationships "The remedy we need to protect teens from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse lies within this book: information. Al Miles,...
The Child Safeguarding Policy Guide for Churches and Ministries Churches are supposed to be a safe haven, but many deal with the tragic reality of child sexual abuse. This...
Redeeming Power Power has a God-given role in human relationships and institutions, but it can lead to abuse when used in unhealthy...
Domestic Violence: What Every Pastor Needs to Know According to the American Medical Association, one quarter of American women will be abused by an intimate partner at some...
Joy Through the Night Joy Through the Night uniquely combines personal experience and scholarship in order that readers may face the most difficult questions Christians...
A Call to Action In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation...
Safe Church Drawing on new, firsthand research and in-depth interviews, Safe Church allows women to voice the pain they have suffered at the hands...
Feminist Trauma Theologies