When Ministers Sin: Sexual Abuse in the Churches

In this explosive book are powerful and authentic stories of betrayal. These personal accounts of sexual abuse by ministers of religion might not have been listened to in the past. Today the churches cannot ignore them. This book raises in almost every story the issue of power in human relationships. One of the important reasons for its publication is the repeated failure of the church to face this issue. It is so easy to dismiss claims of abuse between adults if we discount the issue of an imbalance of power. These stories face all clergy and all those involved in client/professional relationships with the need to come to terms with their grave responsibility and to develop a healthy and honest relationship with their own sexuality. --Rev. Dorothy McRae-McMahon About the authors Neil Ormerod is a well-known theologian author and Dean of Studies St. Pauls Seminary Sydney. Thea Ormerod has a degree in social work and is currently employed as a domestic violence project officer. The Ormerods have four children.