Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
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Emma [Katz] is the world’s leading academic expert on how coercive control harms children and mother-child relationships, and how these harms can be overcome. Emma’s approach to coercive control is strongly anti-victim blaming. Her work is based on an understanding that victims and survivors are ordinary people who were unjustly harmed. While recognising the full… Continue reading How Coercive Control Harms Child Safety and Wellbeing – an interview with Dr Emma Katz
Watch: Language and Violence Masterclass by Dr Linda Coates The video cannot be embedded here. Click the above link to watch it. In the masterclass, Linda Coates gives detailed examples of how language is used to conceal abuse, obfuscate the perpetrator's responsibility, conceal victims' resistance, and blame and pathologise victims. The examples she gives come… Continue reading Language and Violence Masterclass by Dr Linda Coates
I was pleased to be interviewed by ARMS (Abuse Recovery Ministry Services). I also had a little trepidation because this was the first interview I've done after recovering from burnout. But the interviewer, Julie Bonn Blank, was wonderful. She asked good questions and was kind and patient with my sometimes long answers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AenLlE76nc In the… Continue reading Barbara Roberts interviewed by Abuse Recovery Ministry Services (ARMS)
Dr Jessica Taylor is a professional psychologist who specialises in violence against women and girls (VAWG). She founded VictimFocus to educate, help and inform people so we can end victim-blaming all over the world. I recommend her blog. Here are three of her blog posts to whet your appetite. Why grooming is so hard to… Continue reading VictimFocus — Dr Jessica Taylor’s website
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.
Australia is not the only place where children are being forced to have contact with abusers by the legal system. Caution: For some readers, some of the linked articles may be triggering. What is the so-called evangelical church doing about any of this? I answer that ^ question at the bottom of this post. I… Continue reading Australia’s Family Court is ordering children into unsafe situations
A Cry For Justice 