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Responding to Abuse in Christian Homes: A Challenge to Churches and their Leaders
By: Nancy Nason-Clark, Catherine Clark Kroeger, Barbara Fisher Townsend | March 4, 2011
Domestic abuse is a horror. It lurks beneath the surface of our collective existence, sometimes raising its ugly head where least expected—in the church or within families of faith. Are we—individually or collectively—ready to respond? What can, or should, congregations and their pastoral leaders do?
No Place for Abuse: Biblical and Practical Resources to Counteract Domestic Violence
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | November 12, 2010
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, Catherine Clark Kroeger and Nancy Nason-Clark share with readers a further ten years of experience in listening to the voices of women from around the world and especially to those within the church. They help us hear their cries and find concrete ways to respond so that no [...]
A Bridge to Meaning and Ministry
By: Kate A. Johnson | September 5, 2010
It was a long journey to believe in my own value, but as I did, changes occurred. As I learned the truth about God’s tender mercy, a truth that included full equality for women, it became the bridge that rescued my faith.
Sheared Sheep
By: Megan Greulich | September 5, 2010
Kimberly’s story left me speechless. She had believed that, as a Christian woman, she was to play a secondary role in ministry and in her marriage.
Incarcerated Women
By: Margaret English de Alminana | April 30, 2010
During the past several years, I worked as senior chaplain of women at one of the nation’s largest jails in Orlando, Florida. My experiences have left me with many conflicts and questions that I am still sorting out about women, our world, and the role of faith in it.
Book Review: Beyond Abuse in the Christian Home: Jean Lane Dimock
By: Jean Lane Dimock | April 30, 2010
In Beyond Abuse, readers who know of or who endeavor to care for those who experience domestic violence receive essential information as well as deeper insight into family abuse and what our more effective, healing response should be for both victims and perpetrators. The authors exhort the Christian reader to gain knowledge, and they provide [...]
Women’s Calling as Ezer
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2010
When culture values women and men equally, these very attitudes stem the abuse of women. What is more, when dollars are invested in women’s health, education, and businesses, we not only raise women’s standard of living, but that of their families and communities.
The Abuse of Scripture and its Consequences in Gender Inequality (Part 2)
By: Manfred T. Brauch | December 16, 2009
In my previous column (based on my recently published book, Abusing Scripture), I argued that the “abuse of words” often does violence to the meaning and message of Scripture. I illustrated this by showing that the designation of the woman as man’s “helper” (Gen. 2:20) does not show her as a subordinate person, but rather [...]
The Abuse of Scripture and its Consequences in Gender Inequality (Part 1)
By: Manfred T. Brauch | December 9, 2009
One such abuse is “the abuse of selectivity.” This abuse does not consist of an outright distortion of the meaning of given texts, but entails ignoring or rejecting other parts or passages of Scripture that support a different teaching, present an alternate perspective, or advocate an opposing view. Thus, supporters of gender inequality claim the [...]
"Thou Shalt Not Tempt the Lord thy God"
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | October 7, 2009
When I answered the telephone, I found myself listening to a weeping woman. Between sobs she explained that every three weeks or so her abusive husband strangles her into unconsciousness. Though a professing Christian, he suffocates her with pillows, locks her in closets, and leaves her in terror for her life. She has turned for [...]