domestic violence
many ‘Love Brockley’ ministries including free therapy for families with children with additional needs, subsidised professional dance classes, support for those suffering from domestic violence, parenting support, recovery from addiction and practical help getting back into employment.
This does not mean that I believe ‘anything goes.’ There is much cruelty and exploitation of people in our society and we, as the Church, should be calling out promiscuity, unfaithfulness and domestic violence – and honouring relationships that are committed, faithful and caring, whether they are between people of the opposite sex, the same sex or non-binary.
• I am a survivor of domestic violence and abuse in the church.
I think it was because my work with an army wife who’d been subjected to domestic violence had been noticed.
To speak out on the most pressing issues of the day from climate catastrophe, war, famine, disease, human trafficking, domestic violence, homelessness, the epidemic of drug and alcohol dependency that blights so many lives, to a skewed form of market capitalism that, while benefitting some, disadvantaged many others and laid waste to once thriving industrial communities; to the terrifying consequences of power, wealth and influence being concentrated in the hands of a small clique of avaricious, egotistical, narcissistic monopolists in the technology industry, who ally themselves to equally egotistical politicians enabling them to further concentrate power in their own hands and institutions at the expense of the ordinary citizen, while at the same time commodifying what it means to be human by reducing each person to datasets to be leveraged for profit or traded in some grotesque form of digital slavery.
the sexualisation of children, domestic violence and family wellbeing.