by Dr. Catherine Clark Kroeger
"An injured woman was limping along the road, trying to escape an abusive situation. She wasn’t moving very fast, but she was doing her very best to get away. It seemed as though everything was against her. She was pregnant, a minority person, an immigrant and a slave. How’s that for being marginalized? Any of those conditions make a person more susceptible to abuse, feeling like they’re not a person at all. Abused women, whether or not they suffer physical violence, are almost always subjected to humiliation, insults, demeaning. They are stripped of their self-esteem, and they end up often blaming themselves for being the cause of family abuse."

Read this sermon, given by Dr. Catherine Clark Kroeger, online: "Finding God in the Midst of Distress"