The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele cover image

The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele

Responding to Domestic Violence in the Church - with Sandy Grant and Kara Hartley

Jun 22, 2021
36:29

Sandy Grant and Kara Hartley,  who lead the Sydney Anglican Church’s response to domestic violence, are expressing lament and grief at the findings of new national report into intimate partner violence within church communities.

The new report into Domestic Violence in the Australian Anglican Church indicates the number of people who are at least occasional Anglican church attenders and are victims of intimate partner violence is the same as or higher than in the wider Australian community. 

Other key findings include:

  • Evidence that Perpetrators misuse Christian teachings and positional power,
  • Clergy reporting their confidence in their personal capacity to respond to IPV as low to moderate,
  • Our leaders are well informed about the breadth of intimate partner violence and that it is more men than women who commit the violence,
  • While many Anglican victims did not seek support from Anglican church, those that did were helped/felt supported.

There are three aspects to the report:

  • A research report on the prevalence of domestic violence, 
  • A survey of key clergy and lay leaders,
  • The experiences of family violence of those with a connection with Anglican Churches. 

Contacts:

1800 RESPECT - A 24 hour national sexual assault, family and domestic counselling line.

Lifeline 131114 - For anyone across Australia who is experiencing a personal crisis or thinking about suicide.

Further discussions:

Caring pastorally for domestic abuse victims - Jenni Woodhouse

Abuse in the marriage of ministry leaders - Jenni Woodhouse

The difference between domestic violence and dysfunctional relationship - Magdalena Liem

Sermon: 

Dominic Steele teaching on Domestic Violence

http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/domestic-violence



The Church Co
http://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches. 

Support the show

--
Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode