Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
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A Grand Deception: The Successful Response Of Sex Offenders Normally we don't post on Tuesdays, but this article by Boz Tchividjian is so superb — and has so many parallels to how perpetrators of domestic abuse manipulate the impressions of bystanders — that we need to let our readers know about it. Thanks Boz. This article deserves… Continue reading A Grand Deception: The Successful Response Of Sex Offenders (by Boz Tchividjian)
Quite often authors define domestic abuse by giving a list of behaviors. The list can include things like complaining, accusing, angry looks, name calling, denigrating, yelling, threatening, ordering, demanding, belittling, using sarcasm, showing indifference, lying and deceiving, sulking, withholding sexual intimacy, using physical violence. Here is the problem with trying to define domestic abuse as behaviors: You can't necessarily identify who is… Continue reading Defining domestic abuse by a list of behaviors is never going to capture it
