2025 Conference Papers

Keynote 1: Rev’d Dr Hannah Craven

Keynote 2: Naomi Johnson

  • Lived experience reflection on the churches role

Keynote 3: Dr Katherine Thompson

  • Trauma in the pews

Keynote 4: Marshall Ballantine-Jones: Pornography and its impact on Domestic and Family Violence

Panel Discussion 1 : Pastoring in Tension: Chaired by Bishp Geneive Blackwell.

Panel Discussion 2: Driving long-term change ot prevent domestic and family violence in our churches and thier communities. Chaired by National Program Manager, Rev’d Tracy Lauersen

Panel Discussion 3: adapting our work for our contexts. Chaired by Bishop Genieve Blackwell.

Men’s Summit

Communities that Care: Efective Bystanding practices for Churches.

“A faithful church response to domestic and family violence involves at least these 5 things: Grief, Repentance, Humility, Conviction and Hope.”

— Hannah Craven: Being a church pursuing justice with Jesus

“Undoing the domination of women by men and all it’s entailments, is part of the redemptive work of Christ."

— Hannah Craven

“We cannot ‘one-thing’ our way out of the complex cultural problem of domestic and social violence. We need a many-things appraoch to drive long-term change.”

— Tracy Lauersen

2024 Conference Papers

“If we do not put perpetrators in the picture, we miss the opportunity to describe what is taking place, hold perpetrators accountable, examine the social conditions that make that use of violence possible and address these conditions.”

— Flood & Dembele: Putting perpetrators in the picture

“There are numerous stories of rape and sexual violence in the Bible. ..Scholar Phyllis Trible called these “texts of terror”. While they need to be handled with great care, they can provide powerful examples of male abuse of power holding up a mirror to our own culture and society.”

— Robyn Whitaker

“At the heart of our team’s work is the belief that Christ died for all and, in reconciling things all to Himself, we have a role to play in His Kingdom being recognisable, experienced, and lived on earth as in Heaven.”

— Frost & Sullivan