Disabuse: How to Prevent, Detect, Investigate, and Eliminate Abuse in Churches and Faith-Based Organizations
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- Published: Tuesday, 08 April 2025 09:00
Does your church have a plan to prevent, detect, investigate, and eliminate abuse?
REPLAY Brock's Wednesday Bookmark interview with Randal Rauser.
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Book Description:
Walk into almost any church in North America and you will see clearly marked exits and fire doors, fire extinguishers and maps outlining escape routes and muster points.
While most churches are very well prepared to deal with a fire emergency, very few are prepared for another kind of crisis, that which occurs when there is a serious allegation of abuse or misconduct. If someone were to make a serious allegation against a pastor or volunteer at your church, what is the plan? If you do not have one, your church faces significant risk.
In Disabuse, seasonedworkplace investigators Bob Stenhouse and Randal Rauser provide an invaluable guide for churches to confront serious abuse allegations and navigate a rigorous and legally defensible workplace investigation. Because every church has both a legal and moral responsibility to prevent, detect, investigate, and eliminate abuse.
About the Author:
My story begins in eternity past when God fore-ordained that I would come to be. Fast-forward to 1973 when the divine decree was made manifest as I entered the world ... and Edmonton Alberta (Canada) was never the same again. At the age of four I decided to move to Kelowna, BC and I brought my family along with me.
After sixteen years living in the lush Okanagan valley (Canada's preeminent fruit-growing region), I made the move to the lower mainland (the south coast of BC) where I spent 6 1/2 years living in the Vancouver area, during which I completed a BA (Trinity Western University) and an MCS (Regent College) while moonlighting with the perfect job for a student: driving a limousine.
In 1999 I married the girl of my dreams and moved to England to start a PhD at King's College, London with my theological mentor Colin Gunton. Jasper (Rae Kyung) and I moved back to Canada in 2002 and lived a year in Surrey BC as I completed my doctoral thesis and Jasper brought our child Jamie into the world (while I cheered her on).
A year after we moved to Caronport Saskatchewan for one year as I taught philosophy at Briercrest College (my friends from England loved the fact that the nearest town to Caronport was called "Moose Jaw").
A year later we returned to the city of my origins, Edmonton, AB, where we have been since 2003, spreading joy around the capital region as I teach theology at Taylor Seminary, buy lots of books, and write a few of my own.
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