Beyond Abuse in the Christian Home

Beyond Abuse in the Christian Home	B619P
Raising Voices for Change edited by Catherine Clark Kroeger, Nancy Nason-Clark, and Barbara Fisher-Townsend Format: Softcover

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This book is a compilation of papers, presentations, and discussions from the 2005 and 2006 PASCH (Peace and Safety in the Christian Home) conferences. PASCH is an organization dedicated to confronting domestic abuse in Christian homes.

We call on you, the reader, to consider the various ideas and perspectives offered throughout the book. Hopefully each chapter will prompt you to consider afresh how you conceptualize violence among families of faith. Like you, the reader, the contributors to our collection come from various faith traditions, work in different contexts, and see the issue in part based on their own narrative and training. Yet, despite our differences—and our ongoing debates—we are unanimous that violence has no place in the home. Every home should be a safe place; every home a shelter. When abuse occurs in families of faith, it is the responsibility of the church to offer compassion and support to victims and to call those who act abusively to accountability and justice.

Our edited collection includes:

Dan Allender speaking from the heart about the impact of the fall on relationships between men and women;
Al Miles reflecting on his pastoral experience of the difficulties and opportunities of speaking out against violence in Christian families;
Bruce and Karen McAndless-Davis offering one couple's story of the long journey toward accountability and dramatic change;
Julie Owens retelling her own dramatic story of abuse, the life imprisonment of her ex-partner and what she wished every pastor knew about domestic violence.

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WIPF & STOCK, 2008
8.9 X 5.9 inches, 233 pages

CATHERINE CLARK KROEGER is an adjunct associate professor of classical and ministry studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. With James Beck she edited Women, Abuse, and the Bible (1996) and Healing the Hurting (1998). With Mary Evans she edited the IVP Women's Bible Commentary (2002). With Nancy Nason-Clark she has written No Place for Abuse (2001) and Refuge from Abuse (2004). Together with her husband, Richard Kroeger, she wrote I Suffer Not a Woman (1992). She is cofounder of Christians for Biblical Equality.

NANCY NASON-CLARK is a professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick, where she has taught for the past twenty years. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her books include The Battered Wife (1997), No Place for Abuse (with Catherine Kroeger, 2001), Refuge from Abuse (with Catherine Kroeger, 2004), Woman Abuse (co-editor, 2004), and Feminist Narratives and the Sociology of Religion (with M. J. Neitz, 2001). Nason-Clark served as editor of the international journal Sociology of Religion from 2000 to 2006 and was elected president of the Religious Research Association (2001-2004) and president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (1998-2000).

BARBARA FISHER-TOWNSEND is a postdoctoral fellow with the RAVE (Religion and Violence e-Learning) Project in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick. For the past five years, she has served as editorial assistant on the international journal Sociology of Religion. In addition to teaching courses at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Barbara has an active research program related to issues of violence.