Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
How to be a bad priest:— Write about sex without triaging the problem of sexual trauma. Use language that will re-traumatise survivors of trauma. Characterise all sexual abuse as “violent acts”. Repeat divorce platitudes that you think are true because they’ve been recycled ad infinitum in Christendom. Utter a smidgeon of apology…with an empathy deficit.
The torture which Jesus suffered on the Cross must NOT be likened to sexual intercourse between man and woman. To draw that analogy will deeply traumatise victims of sexual and domestic abuse. Furthermore, drawing an analogy between the Cross and the marriage bed plays right into the agenda of abusive husbands.
