You might have got totally different impressions of how the church
responds to domestic violence depending on your media choices this week.
On the ABC, journalist Julia Baird presented a number of reports (here, here and here), that emphasised a statistic – that US research shows that “sporadic” attenders of churches are more likely to engage in domestic violence than the general community. Then News Corp’s Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun and on Sky News pointed to a key finding from the same research which shows that regular attenders at church are much less likely to be involved in domestic violence. (Karl Faase in Eternity had reported that good news story back in 2015.) To be fair, Baird also reported that statistic but much less prominently.
https://www.eternitynews.com.au/in-depth/how-the-domestic-violence-research-can-help-the-church/
On the ABC, journalist Julia Baird presented a number of reports (here, here and here), that emphasised a statistic – that US research shows that “sporadic” attenders of churches are more likely to engage in domestic violence than the general community. Then News Corp’s Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun and on Sky News pointed to a key finding from the same research which shows that regular attenders at church are much less likely to be involved in domestic violence. (Karl Faase in Eternity had reported that good news story back in 2015.) To be fair, Baird also reported that statistic but much less prominently.
https://www.eternitynews.com.au/in-depth/how-the-domestic-violence-research-can-help-the-church/