Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
"Blood is thicker than water" is often used to coerce victims of abuse to comply with the sinful beliefs and behaviour patterns within a family system. It is used to intimidate and extract loyalty from a member of the family whose conscience is more active and biblically guided than the rest of the family –… Continue reading Family – is blood thicker than water?
Conservative Jewish religious leaders have for thousands of years insisted that in order for a divorce to be legal, the husband must sign the divorce certificate. The essential words in the traditional Jewish divorce certificate were "You are free to marry any man". Jews call this divorce certificate a 'get' – it is a Hebrew… Continue reading The Jewish divorce certificate gave women the right to remarry, but some men used it rule over women
