Beyond Abuse in the Christian Home: Raising Voices for Change

Catherine Clark Kroeger is an adjunct associate professor of classical and ministry studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. With James Beck she edited Women, Abuse, and the Bible (1996) and Healing the Hurting (1998). With Mary Evans she edited the IVP Women’s Bible Commentary (2002). With Nancy Nason-Clark she has written No Place for Abuse: Biblical and Practical Resources to Counteract Domestic Violence (2001) and Refuge from Abuse: Healing and Hope for Abused Religious Women (2004). Together with husband, Richard Kroeger, she wrote I Suffer Not A Woman (1992). She is cofounder of Christians for Biblical Equality.

Nancy Nason-Clark is a professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, where she has taught for the past twenty years. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England. Her books include The Battered Wife: How Christians Confront Family Violence (1997), No Place for Abuse: Biblical and Practical Resources to Counteract Domestic Violence (with Catherine Clark Kroeger, 2001), Refuge from Abuse: Healing and Hope for Abused Religious Women (with Catherine Clark Kroeger, 2004), Woman Abuse: Partnering for Change (edited with M. L. Stirling, C. A. Cameron, and B. Miedema, 2004), and Feminist Narratives and the Sociology of Religion (with M. J. Neitz, 2001). Nason-Clark served as editor of the international journal Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review from 2000 to 2006 and was elected president of the Religious Research Association (2001-2004) and president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (1998-2000).

Barbara Fisher Townsend is a postdoctoral fellow with the RAVE (Religion and Violence e-Learning) Project in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. For the past five years, she has served as editorial assistant on the international journal Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review. In addition to teaching courses at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Barbara has an active research program related to issues of violence.