Carmichael Crutchfield

Tangible Grace

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Evelyn L. Parker highlights the prevalence of intimate partner violence among teenagers and the importance of awareness and intervention and suggests using religious teachings, pastoral care, and advocacy to prevent and address teen dating violence. Parker’s teaching strategies include integrating gender-based violence education into human sexuality courses and using emancipatory pedagogy and subversive teaching of holy scriptures to address systemic issues of patriarchy and power contributing to gender-based violence. The book invites us to see the role teaching plays in addressing gender-based violence. We are also given tools to combat teen violence, such as the use of implicit curriculum and religious teachings.”