Dedication of Our Red Benches
Arundhati Roy once said: Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable. For Christians, seeing has implications. In 2020 when women across Australia were marching against gendered violence, the Anglican Church of Australia did a survey to investigate the prevalence of Domestic and Family Violence in church communities. Horrifyingly the results showed that the prevalence of DFV in Anglican communities is at least the same if not higher than the general population, and even more horrifying were…