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Dr. Catherine Clark Kroeger
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Catherine Clark Kroeger, Ph.D.
President, Peace and Safety in the Christian Home
Ranked Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical and Ministry Studies at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Co-author: No Place for Abuse; Refuge from Abuse; and Women, Abuse, and the Bible.
More information about Dr. Kroeger may be found on her Gordon Conwell page.
Recent Writings
The Word of God Is Not BoundPakistan contemplates legal ban on domestic abuse
Dr. Nancy Nason-Clark
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Dr. Nancy Nason-Clark is a social scientist by profession who has a very important story to tell. For over 20 years, she has been writing about what happens when abuse strikes families of faith. Through her books, her international speaking engagements, the workshops she conducts and the articles she writes, the message is clear: there is a holy hush hovering over most religious congregations when it comes to talking about abuse.
Nancy created the RAVE Project; visit her page at RAVE to learn more.
Recent Writings
When Terror Strikes at Home: The Interface Between Religion and Domestic ViolenceAn address by Nancy Nason-Clark
Brenda Branson
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Brenda is an author and public speaker. She has written over 1000 inspirational articles and educational materials on domestic violence, many of which have been published throughout the U.S. and distributed throughout Europe and many other countries. Co-author of Violence Among Us — Ministry to Families in Crisis, she is also a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) and co-founder of FOCUS Ministries, Inc.
With Paula Silva, Brenda created Broken People.org, and you can read more on her Broken People page.
Recent Writings
Battery is NOT Included!I Know God Loves Me… But Does He Like Me?
Paula J. Silva
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Paula Silva is co-founder and president of FOCUS Ministries, Inc., the National Support Group Director for FOCUS Ministries, Inc., and the director of FOCUS Women’s Center in Wood Dale, Illinois.
She is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), co-host of “Restoring the Hope” conferences for women held in Illinois and Kentucky, workshop leader of “Train the Trainer”, and serves on the Faith Based Advisory Committee for Mayor Daley’s Office of Domestic Violence. She has coauthored the book, Violence Among Us: Ministry to Families in Crisis and the article, Domestic Violence Among Believers, in the 2005 Vol. 13 No. 3 issue of Christian Counseling Today Magazine.
Read more about Paula on this Focus Ministries page.
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Pat Burke
Author pagePatricia C. Burke, Ph.D.
Pat Burke is a part-time instructor at the University of Connecticut, Hartford Campus, teaching life-span development, family studies, and gender courses in the Human Development and Family Studies Department. In addition, she has designed numerous training programs in the corporate world and for churches in Connecticut. Her special interest is women’s psychological development, and she has served as a facilitator for support groups, conducted workshops, and counseled individuals who are experiencing major life crises, including domestic abuse. For the past two years, she has served in an administrative role with the PASCH organization.
Recent Writings
What About Me?Are you a victim or quiet warrior?
Dr. Barbara Fisher-Townsend
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Barbara Fisher-Townsend works full-time with the RAVE project. After years of teaching university courses in deviance and social control, she decided to return to graduate study and pursue doctoral work. Her dissertation is a study of how faith-based services, batterer intervention programs and criminal justice systems interface.
Read more on her page at RAVE.
Recent Writings
Questions to ConsiderHow Can We End the Cycle?
Rev. Mary Scheer
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Rev. Scheer earned her M. Div. in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and is an associate pastor at Brewster Baptist Church, on Cape Cod.
Recent Writings
Speaking Clearly: The Importance of Language in Talking about AbuseChristianna Barnard
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Deleting the Picture Doesn’t Erase the Issue: A Teenager’s Perspective on Dating ViolenceRev. Dr. Douglas Scalise
Author pageBorn in Boston and raised in Brookline, MA, Doug is the son and grandson of pastors.
Read more about Pastor Scalise on his church website.
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Let Your Gentleness Be Known to EveryoneShirley Vogel
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Shirley writes and speaks from life-experiences that demonstrate how God, through painful and challenging situations, has matured Shirley's child-like trust in Him and transformed her greatest
In her journey, Shirley has come to love God with all of her heart and she now has a passion to share the Lord with women who are hurting and wondering where God is in their situations.
Her website is wHispers.
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