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Faith Leaders Against Sexual Violence

#1 Today’s “top of the fold” story are faith leaders who are speaking against sexual violence.

That is, in light of how much I’ve been harping on the language of sexual violence inherent in evangelical messaging about sex and gender, I thought I’d point you to an opposite message, too.

Art by Barbara Kruger, “Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989”

Because, as survivors, it can feel as if every faith leader everywhere has shut his/her eyes to abuse. But that’s simply not the case.

So I want to invite you to explore a Sojourners project I recently discovered: 100 sermons against sexual and domestic violence.