Content warning: This conversation touches on the topics of rape, sexual assault and spiritual abuse, so please do look after yourselves.

Alongside her teaching and ministry work, Beth supports victims and survivors of abuse within churches and is involved in the development of the Church of England Redress Scheme. Here she talks about her own experience of abuse and points to some of the things we can be doing to make our church communities safer.

Resources

The Pieces Join: Navigating Faith, Trauma and Recovery (Canterbury Press)

4.2. Spiritual Abuse - Church of England Safeguarding e-manual

Coming up

We’re thrilled to announce our next series launches on Monday 9 November. We’re putting our resident biblical scholar, Dr Charlotte Naylor Davis, through her paces as we dive in the Bible. What exactly is it? Why is it so hard to read? And if it’s so hard to read, why is ‘just read your Bible’ sold in churches as the answer to all of life’s great problems?

Each month there’ll be a conversation and a Q&A so get your questions ready for this one.

About A God We Could Believe In:

A frank and honest look at Christianity as we find it today. We’re examining the things the church says and does that are embarrassing, confusing or even downright offensive. In other religious contexts, your questions might be forbidden but not here. So whether you’re a lifelong churchgoer with the scars to prove it, or you’ve never entered a church and are just interested in the debate, this is a safe space for you.

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