How the Church Fails Women and Girls | Sojourners

How the Church Fails Women and Girls

It's Been Two Years Since Boko Haram's Mass Kidnapping. The Girls Still Haven't Been Brought Back.
Rebecca Samuels. Image via On Scripture.

Too often in the biblical witness, violence against women and girls focuses disproportionate energy on the feelings and actions of men. King David is furious. Absalom feels hatred. And the desolate Tamar is instructed to be quiet. Her rapist was, after all, her kinfolk, her half-brother, a member of her tribe.

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