Comments on: Femicide

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:35:00 +0000

Deb, I’m glad to help. I met Maggie in the UK in September at 24-7 Prayer’s global gathering. She came in to lead a seminar called “Caring for the Sexually Broken.” I was very impressed with her.

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:42:00 +0000

lisa! Thanks for the info! I will contact Maggie post-haste!

I felt the need to get some research in this area because of needs within my own congregation… the emotional toll and the healing cycle is lengthy and painful…

deb

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:14:00 +0000

Also, see an interview with Maggie at
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3318492.ece

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:12:00 +0000

Deb and Lydia, if you are still looking for info on what believers are doing in this realm, contact Maggie Ellis at Life Center in the UK. info@lifecentre.uk.com and website http://www.lifecentre.uk.com/ They are doing a great work with victims of sexual trauma. Maggie is a mature Christian as well as a psychosexual therapist.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:13:00 +0000

I’d like to hear more about your research on rape, Deb. I don’t know if this is part of your work, but I’d particularly like to hear of any programs run by churches (or christ-followers in general) you’ve come across that work with women who have been raped or sexually assaulted

So many Christians (so many humans in general) seem almost afraid to talk about this. Or, if they do bring it up, too often it’s to blame the person who was assaulted.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:45:00 +0000

I have been doing research on rape in general for a pastoral care project. It is the NUMBER ONE under-reported crime in the world. That it has spread with such frequency to younger and younger people makes my heart stop.

Maranatha… come, Lord Jesus…

Deb

By: medium guy

medium guy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:08:00 +0000

I think that if those who are led and gifted as such would create a video documentary and disseminate it to a wide audience, as in Hotel Rwanda, at least fewer people would have ignorance as an excuse [not that it should be, but let's get real - it is].

And unfortunately, the bread-and-circus consuming American masses [present company excluded of course!] are too media blitzed and obsessing about short-sighted worries such as the current status of the economy to think about such lofty ideals as…well, gee – “…are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” Of course, to them this refers to the right to brandish an AK-47, as opposed to those “black-skinned African women” having a right to not be subjugated and abused. But hey, there was only one Jesus, right?

By: Sensuous Wife

Sensuous Wife — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:22:00 +0000

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

(groan)

I will intercede until I feel like I can breathe all the way down again.