Boys ‘in care’ pack raped; what an oxymoron. As representatives of the broader church, we all feel the pain, and the shame, of today’s headline in the Age. Nothing can undo the past, and this type of experience is all the more difficult to heal from, when the abuse has been perpetrated by those who should be representing ‘the healer’. 

I received my healing from the healer himself, and have grown to love the broader church…ie the body of people connected to the head. Perhaps we can only begin to address this clear ‘disconnect’ from the heart and head that allows for such abuse when we stop and simply say ‘we care.’