Domestic Violence

Anne Marie Hunter, MDiv '86, director of Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 12, 2018. ♦♦♦ This morning’s reading features...

Beverly Mayne Kienzle of the Harvard Divinity School and Nancy Nienhuis of Andover Newton Theological School discuss their research on historical and contemporary narratives of battering. Robert Hensley-King moderates the conversation. Historical and...

About one in four women have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. However, battering is far from being a recent phenomenon, and the historical and contemporary Christian narratives of battering often...

For Mary Setterholm, MDiv '13, her lived experience with sexual and gender-based violence motivates and informs her ministry. Setterholm is currently a pastoral activist with Serenity Sisters, and she was one of four faith leaders who participated in a...

At a recent forum at HDS, panelists discuss the ways in which faith leaders are thinking about and responding to sex and gender-based violence in their communities and congregations. The panel, moderated by Ahmed Ragab, the Richard T. Watson Assistant...

The statistics are nearly too jarring to be true: globally, one-third of women report being physically or sexually abused by an intimate partner, according to the United States Department of Justice. Another one-third of all female homicide victims are...