Sunday’s Evensong gathering recognised and commemorated the courage and journeys of survivors of sexual assault and institutional abuse, their supporters, and whistleblowers across Australia. Survivor The Rev’d Ros Clifton preaches
“One of my close friends recently opened up about the extent of the violence she experienced in her marriage. Raised in a Christian home, she married a Christian man whom she said, ‘looked perfect on paper’. They are both intelligent people at the top of their professional fields, and had a lovely home with beautiful children at the best private schools. I knew that there were problems, but it was not until a year after they separated that I discovered the extent of what she had endured,” says The Rev’d Ann Edwards