This episode of Big Little Issues is the second in our three-part series “Abuse in the Church”.

In “Part 2: Willing to Fight Ugly Fights” Dr Janice McRandal speaks to Hilary Jerome Scarsella and Dr Peter Capretto.

Hilary is a Professor of Ethics and Director of Gender, Sexual, and Racial Justice Studies at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York.  She is also the Director of Theological Integrity of Into Account; a not-for-profit organisation led by survivors of sexual violence who offer advocacy and support to other sexual violence survivors who have connections to Christian settings.

Peter is a pastoral theologian and philosopher of religion at Phillips Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is trained clinically as a hospice chaplain and a pastoral psychotherapist and his research and practice are directly concerned with dynamics of trauma, violence and abuse.

In conversation with with these two experts, we uncover how sexual violence is perpetrated and enabled within church communities, and what we might do to fight against this to create church spaces where all people - survivors, the vulnerable, the marginalised - are safe.

Show Notes:

Jennifer Freyd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Freyd

Rainbow Mennonite Church report: https://intoaccount.org/2020/10/08/catching-flames-into-account-on-the-i-am-mine-series/