There are women in our congregations who are suffering under the heavy hand of domestic abuse. Oh, they may not have bruises to show for it, not ones that we can see, anyway. But domestic abuse, or as I’m preferring to call it, coercive control, even when not physical, doing grave damage to sheep under our care. It behooves us to have some insight into how to spot it, and how we might respond without doing harm.

This conversation with three insightful guests, all from Called To Peace Ministries, I think you’ll find, will be invaluable in pointing us all in a direction that will make us, and our churches, better caretakers of hurting women.

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EPISODE NOTES

Notes and resources relevant to this episode:

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Called to Peace Ministries

Protect the Flock

Dan and Shannon Boeck, Rediscovering Christ: A Survivor’s Guide to the True Church

Dan and Shannon Boeck, Domestic Abuse and the Dechurched: Are people abandoning the church or is the church abandoning its people?

Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

Tyler Staton, Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Timothy L. Sanford, I Have to Be Perfect

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RDC 7A. An Invisible Blight: Domestic Abuse in the Church, Part One