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This book was written as a practical response to many ministers who approached the author after they did not know what to say to a woman suffering violence from her abusive husband. The focus and audience is the Christian community, and the particular issues that are raised in a Christian context. Although a pastor in a congregational setting is used in most examples, the recommendations can be...

4 SAFETY A hospital chaplain called upon a woman who had just given birth. There had been no complications with the birth, and the chaplain began what he thought would be a routine discussion. He was shocked and distressed when the woman told him that she was afraid to return home, that her husband battered her, and that she was terrified of what would happen to her and her baby. Not knowing what to do, the chaplain gave her his home phone number (he lived in a community forty miles away) and encouraged
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