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Book Reviews: El abuso doméstico: Ayuda para las víctimas y El abuso doméstico: Reconoce, responde, rescata
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | March 25, 2025
En dos libros cortos, la consejera familiar Darby Strickland describe cómo reconocer el abuso doméstico y cómo ayudar a una víctima.
Healing from Hierarchy
By: Jazmine Lawrence | March 20, 2025
Jazmine Lawrence shares how God has healed her from the physical, emotional, and spiritual damage of hierarchy.
The Wife as a Training Ground: Complementarian Theology and Coercive Control
By: Bethany Jantzi | February 3, 2025
Complementarianism can create the opportunity for the husband to mimic the behaviour of a domestic abuser, deploying coercive control under the cover of biblical sanction.
Is the Church a Safe Place for Women?
By: Andrew J. Bauman | January 23, 2025
Andrew Bauman shares his research of over 2,800 women and their stories of sexism in the church, and his desire to cultivate a safe church.
Book Review: Safe Church: How to Guard against Sexism and Abuse in Christian Communities
By: Jessica Fleck | January 21, 2025
Bauman uplifts the voices of marginalized women within the Protestant church using clear statistics, the stories of women, and research of others. Safe Church helps women and men understand and address sexism in the church with clear statistics and healthy tools.
Book Review: Remembering Antonia Teixeira: A Story of Missions, Violence, and Institutional Hypocrisy
By: Xiaorui Wang | January 14, 2025
Authors Mikeal C. Parsons and João B. Chaves write an account of how prominent members of Baylor University and the Texas Baptist community took deliberate steps to twist and bury the story of Antônia Teixeira in the aftermath of her rape and subsequent childbirth. Their book invites readers to enter the world of [...]
Video - Dangerous Congregations: When Power and Authority Take Over
By: Kathy Myatt | December 9, 2024
Religious abuse: how are victims seduced, who is vulnerable, and what breaks the hold? While some churches start out healthy and slowly develop abusive patterns, other groups have authoritarian DNA set in their foundation. We will look at characteristics of cults and abusive churches and examine what factors make people vulnerable to joining them.
Video - "Victim-Blaiming" and the David and Bathsheba Narrative
By: J. Dwayne Howell | December 7, 2024
Many denominations have been affected by sexual abuse by their leaders in the past several years and the cover-ups that sought to hide it. Victims caught in such abuse are again victimized by institutions that were willing participants or entrapped by the leadership.
Holding Husbands Accountable
By: J.A. Boone | November 28, 2024
If your husband is failing to love you, he is breaking what Jesus declared to be the Greatest Commandment. We are all guilty of being unloving from time to time. But if this is a consistent and frequent issue, it may rise to the level of abuse. If this is the pattern of your marriage, [...]
Video - Created to Thrive: Cultivating Abuse-Free Faith Communities
By: Barbara Murray | November 23, 2024
Created to Thrive was born out of the desire to equip pastors and Christian leaders with the resources to respond wisely to reports of abuse and to create a space in their church or organization where all members can flourish. The contributors, each highly qualified in their respective fields, tackle topics related to abuse, exposing [...]