Episodes #3-5: The Church's Response to Marital Abuse

Podcast Episodes on The Church's Response to Marital Abuse

This three part podcast is about the Church's Response to Marital Abuse. It is based on my research report "Examination and Recommendations on the Church's Response to Marital Abuse" written for my Practical Theology class at Asbury Seminary. You can read the PDF version here.

The three parts of the series are Examining the Church's Response to Marital Abuse, Theological Reflections on the Church's Response to Marital Abuse, and Recommendations for the Church's Response to Marital Abuse.




I have already written extensively on domestic violence. Most of my articles are available on my Domestic Violence Resource on one of my other blogs. On that page, there are also links to many of the books listed in my research.

Recommended books quoted in my research paper:

• Give Her Wings: Help and Healing After Abuse by Megan Cox 
• Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife: My Story of Finding Hope after Domestic Abuse by Dr. Ruth A. Tucker 
• A Model for Marriage: Covenant, Grace, Empowerment and Intimacy by Jack O. Balswick and Judith K. Balswick
• The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships by Gretchen Baskerville
• Divorce and Remarriage in the Church: Biblical Solutions for Pastoral Realities by Dr. David Instone-Brewer
• And Marries Another: Divorce and Remarriage in the Teaching of the New Testament by Dr. Craig Keener
• No Place for Abuse: Biblical and Practical Resources to Counteract Domestic Violence by Catherine Clark Kroeger and Nancy Nason-Clark 
• Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores by Dr. Diane Langberg
• Survivor Care: What Religious Professionals Need to Know about 
  Healing Trauma by Dr. Christy Gunter Sim
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Bessel. 

Recommended articles mentioned in my research paper:

• Your Stories of Women and Marriages Damaged from Love and Respect by Sheila Wray Gregoire, To Love Honor and Vacuum blog
• Grounds for Divorce: Why I Now Believe There are More than Two paper presented by Dr. Wayne Grudem at 2019 Evangelical Theological Society
• Why Couples Counseling is Not Recommended for Abusive Marriages - Even Christian Ones by Virginia Knowles at Watch the Shepherd blog
• A Critique of Wayne Grudem’s ‘A Grounds for Divorce' by Marg Mowczko 
• Paul’s Words on Divorce, and Leaving an Abusive Marriage by Marg Mowczko
• God Hates Divorce? by Rev. Sam Powell on My Only Comfort blog