8 December 2025

Preventing domestic and family violence means challenging sexism, bias, and unhealthy norms. These things don’t always lead  to violence but they are disrespectful and disrespect always features in gender-based violence. Are any of our ways of being the church, our structures and processes, inherently gendered, patriarchal and violent,  rooted in old cultural and patriarchal models which we know are unhealthy? Sexism, bias and unhealthy norms can be ingrained in institutions, including our churches.  In order to build communities where everyone flourishes, we need to be willing to call out these social drivers of violence.

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