Healing Violent Men: A Model for Christian CommunitiesDomestic violence is a widespread, though largely invisable, problem, often exacerbated by the pastoral urge to keep the family together at all costs. Yet if that is not a solution, how should the church relate to batterers? I believe that the Christian community, if it is to be genuinely a community of healing and hope, must attend to both the victims and the perpetrators of domestic violence, says David Livingston. Addressing the complex phenomenon