On Ash Wednesday February 22, 4 pm, Bishop Philip Aspinall, recently retired Archbishop of Brisbane (2002-2022) will launch Grey Spaces: Searching out the Church in the Shadows of Abuse (Cascade Books, 2022) by Bishop Jeffrey Driver, retired Archbishop of Adelaide (2005-2016) at St Francis College, 233 Milton Road, Milton.

In this book, Jeffrey Driver explores some of the underlying cultural and theological influences that may have predisposed the possibility of abuse, as well as the defensiveness and cover-ups that sometimes followed. Recognizing the institutional temptation to do only enough to settle a crisis, Jeffrey Driver calls for something different from the churches. Drawing on the imagery of Holy Saturday, he encourages a deeper journey of reflection and change, for churches and church leaders to linger reflectively in the grey spaces of loss and shame long enough to hear the voice of God addressing them through the vulnerable and the wounded once more, calling the church back to itself and into a deeper, humbler relationship with the world it is called to serve.

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