Kristen Leslie to to train Navy chaplains on sexual assault ministry

In case you missed the story in the St Louis Post Dispatch . . .

Eden professor to train Navy chaplains on sexual assault ministry

09/24/2013 - By Tim Townsend ttownsend@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8221

Rev. Kristen Leslie began her 2003 book, “When Violence Is No Stranger,” with a verse from Psalms, a nod to her training as a theologian.

“It is not enemies who taunt me — I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me — I could hide from them. But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend...

 The book’s subject was acquaintance rape, and it got the attention of a chaplain at the Air Force Academy. The school was then reeling from a Pentagon report indicating that 7 percent of its cadets reported being the victims of rape or attempted rape. Nearly 90 percent of the perpetrators were their own classmates.

Leslie, now a professor of pastoral theology and care at Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, was invited to Colorado to consult with academy leaders on how to train Air Force chaplains to deal with sexualized violence on campus.   (Continue reading . . . )