From Facebook
I am heartbroken for the family, partner and friends of Sarah Everard, and all those whose lives she touched. They are in my prayers. May they know the suffering God alongside them in this unimaginable pain. Testimony after testimony from women over recent days have shown us something we have known and ignored for far too long: the profound impact of the sin of male violence, intimidation, harassment, sexism and abuse carried out against women. It is these sins – and the culture that perpetuates and condones them – that need our urgent repentance, our fervent prayer, and our resolute action as men.
While it is heartbreaking what happened to that child, would it really have made the news if the victim were male?
Men are victims of violence also, and not only male against male.
How exactly I am supposed to repent as a man because some men commit sins of violence against women? Do women have to repent because some other women commit sins against men? Perhaps if we men repent on behalf of all women and women repent on behalf of all men it would be more evenly balanced. I’ll check with my wife.