I was grieved to read a report, commissioned by the Australian Anglican church, that claimed that members of Anglican churches are more likely to experience domestic and family violence than those outside it. The report found that: 1. The prevalence of intimate partner violence among Anglicans was the same or higher than in the wider Australian community.
Thank you for sharing this. The findings are horrible, depressing. But necessary to know. When I read your comment: "They can also — and I really want my fellow preachers to hear this — be taught and heard by you in unhelpful ways", I wanted to weep. For the many victims and for this observation being true of other difficult doctrines. The Word must be presented with extreme care. Sounds obvious but it's too easy, I think, to become so used to the teachings 'we know' from the 'scriptures that teach them', to not think about how they might sound or be heard by someone with a different knowledge and experiential framework to our own.
Please read David Robertson’s comments on his blog “The Wee Flea”. The data is inadequate to draw the kind of conclusions the egalitarian commentators have been drawing. They have a pre-disposition to find support for their perspective. With a subject like this, initial neutrality is necessary in order to analyse the data adequately.
Thank you for sharing this. The findings are horrible, depressing. But necessary to know. When I read your comment: "They can also — and I really want my fellow preachers to hear this — be taught and heard by you in unhelpful ways", I wanted to weep. For the many victims and for this observation being true of other difficult doctrines. The Word must be presented with extreme care. Sounds obvious but it's too easy, I think, to become so used to the teachings 'we know' from the 'scriptures that teach them', to not think about how they might sound or be heard by someone with a different knowledge and experiential framework to our own.
Please read David Robertson’s comments on his blog “The Wee Flea”. The data is inadequate to draw the kind of conclusions the egalitarian commentators have been drawing. They have a pre-disposition to find support for their perspective. With a subject like this, initial neutrality is necessary in order to analyse the data adequately.