Annabel Taylor

The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“I commend Kevin Giles for producing a well-researched and thoughtful book on how Christian churches need to recognize domestic and family violence and respond and refer appropriately. The history of discrimination against women in the churches has created generations of women and girls who have come to believe that they are beneath and inferior to men and as a consequence have accepted their marginalization and abuse in one way or another. Kevin Giles forcefully argues that church leaders today must take responsibility for this diminishment of women that all too often has allowed, if not encouraged, domestic and family violence. The persuasive interpretation of the Bible Dr. Giles gives promotes a liberating understanding of the position of women and girls and provides a charter for gender equity and the recognition of the potential of women as faith-community leaders. I very much hope that his book generates honest and open debate on domestic and family violence in our churches that results in church leaders openly opposing ideas that can result in the abuse of women.”