Gender-based violence (GBV) can take many forms and have detrimental effects across generations and cultures. The triangulation of GBV, rurality and rural culture is a challenging and essential topic and this edited collection provides an innovative analysis of GBV in rural communities. Focusing on under-studied and/or oppressed groups such as immigrants and LGBT+ people, the book explores new theories on patterns of violence. Giving insights into GBV education and prevention, the text introduces community justice and victim advocacy approaches to tackling issues of GBV in rural areas. From policy review into actionable change, the editors examine best practices to positively affect the lives of survivors.

A story of a young Maasai girl and her journey through puberty and the challenges her culture presents.

"What Happened to Eden" is a contemporary account of what experiencing spiritual warefare is like. Emphasized is how Satan used a little recognized temptation, Inordinate Affection col3: 5KJV, to attack a local church congregation. The Bible teaches us that the only weapon we have to use in spiritual warfare is the sword of the Spirit, i.e. the word of God.
Thus, the word of God that we don't know can become Satan's greatest weapon. Biblical definition of this temptation, and its success, is illustrated with examples of two priests and a great king of the old testament, and a case study of inordinate affection in a 21st century church, my church
Not recognizing the temptation, what it looked like, we became easy prey for the Blue Sky Baptist Church. The temptation had been taken by our leaders, and by permission, by the laity. Wrapped in religious purpose, it was a caramel coated apple full of promise. Having bitten, we followed a destructive path, all the while ignorant of what was happening until it was too late. Only God's intervention provided a way out. After losing our Eden, only God could help us. And He did.
He proved His warnings were for good, even when we didn't think so. We'd experienced spiritual warfare and learned that living "by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" was not an option but an absolute necessity.