Church As a Safe Place: Confronting, Resolving and Minimizing Abuse in the Church - Softcover

Holmes, Peter R.

 
9781860246036: Church As a Safe Place: Confronting, Resolving and Minimizing Abuse in the Church

Synopsis

We are all looking for relationships and environments that are safe, that give us life. Sadly, however, many people suffer as a result of the failure to create a safe place within the church environment. Drawing upon the authors’ experience in counseling those who have suffered spiritual abuse, Church as a Safe Place offers help to those who are victims of abuse or anyone committed to ensuring that church is a “safe” place.

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About the Author

Peter R. Holmes (MA, PhD) is a management trainer and co-founder of both Christ Church Deal, Kent and Rapha. He is also a member of the Chartered Management Institute, the Association of Therapeutic Communities (ATC) and a Lead Reviewer on the Community of Communities Research Project of the ATC and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is the author of Becoming More Human: Exploring the Interface of Spirituality; Discipleship and Faith Community; Trinity In Human Community: Exploring Congregational Life in the image of the Social Trinity and The Fasting Journey, and the co-author of Becoming More Like Christ: A Contemporary Biblical Journey; Changed Lives: Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People; Christ walks where evil Reigned and Introducing Salugenic Community: Journeying into Christ - Editorial Review. Susan B. Williams, (Ph.D., University of Bristol) is a business consultant and trainer. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She is a founding member of Christ Church, Deal, in Kent. Her doctoral work was on 'Change, Spirituality and Learning in a Therapeutic community, and she is the co-author of Becoming More Like Christ: A Contemporary Biblical Journey; Changed Lives: Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People; and Meeting Jesus Together: Introducing Salugenic Community.

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