Today is a national day of protest in South Africa.
It is a general day of resistant protest organised by Women For Change.
The femicide stats are horrendous. This year alone, a women is murdered every 2.5 hours.
Let that sit for a while!
This morning a friend of mine, who is a professor of Theology, wrote in her social media post , calling the church to be loud, clear and part of the solution to the scourge of GBV in SA. I found myself feeling all sorts of things.
About 5 years ago, I was part of a panel discussion in our, then church, on GBV. The " series" was called Unspoken. I have just tried to find these online and they seem not to be there. The first 2 Unspoken were on the discussion of racism. The 3rd was GBV and thereafter the things unspoken were rendered silent. No more. When we truly speak the things that are unspoken, it makes people , especially some Christians extremely uncomfortable.
Similarly, I have searched the website of the same said church to see if anyone has or is saying anything abut this important day. Not one word. Silence.
The message of Jesus seems not to care about the murdering, raping and abusing of half the congregation represented in these spaces or those outside of the church that they seemingly want to REACH for the saviour they profess.
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