{"id":9366,"date":"2011-11-20T22:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T11:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2011-11-20T23:32:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T12:32:34","slug":"to-stop-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/11\/20\/to-stop-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"To stop domestic violence &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Men are becoming much more active in challenging attitudes and actions which endorse violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the good news that David Penberthy reports from a conversation with Dr Flood in anticipation of new research to be released 25 November 2011 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteribbon.org.au\/\">White Ribbon Day<\/a>-[To the blokes: I just swore! Do you swear too? &#8211; against violence! Check it out. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p>See David Penberthy&#8217;s full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepunch.com.au\/articles\/the-high-price-of-male-silence-on-violence-against-women\/\">The high price of male silence on violence against women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a symposium, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicantas.org.au\/resources-whatdoesittake\/\">What does it take &#8230; to STOP domestic violence?<\/a> I stated that\u00a0to be true followers of Christ, we must have a commitment to healing and change.<\/p>\n<p>What can we do?<\/p>\n<p>The church certainly needs to\u00a0confront domestic violence\u00a0strongly and positively:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>by recognising domestic violence, and talking about it in our churches.<\/li>\n<li>by condemning it as always wrong and destructive.<\/li>\n<li>by believing and supporting victims.<\/li>\n<li>by praying for those suffering abuse and those who abuse (see below).<\/li>\n<li>by challenging offenders from all walks of life to change &#8211; and then supporting and facilitating that change.<\/li>\n<li>by having a brave look at how male power and privilege is used in our society, in our churches and in our homes.<\/li>\n<li>by participating in a shift in community attitudes that challenges of the power that maintains domestic violence.<\/li>\n<li>by ensuring we don&#8217;t misuse theology to permit the continuation of domestic violence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the church also needs to be involved in more &#8216;back door&#8217;, or &#8216;preventative&#8217;, ways as well. Recognizing the influence on this problem of unemployment and hopelessness; of family break down; of alcoholism; of poor relationship skills, of financial stress, the church also needs to be at work in these areas in preventative ways as well.<\/p>\n<p>See the full address, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicantas.org.au\/resources-whatdoesittake\/\">What does it take &#8230; to STOP domestic violence?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men are becoming much more active in challenging attitudes and actions which endorse violence. This is the good news that David Penberthy reports from a conversation with Dr Flood in anticipation of new research to be released 25 November 2011 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/11\/20\/to-stop-domestic-violence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9366"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9385,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}