Rev. Dr.
Marie M. Fortune
Founder, Senior Analyst
FaithTrust Institute
(formerly the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence)
Seattle, WA
Contact:
http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org
"Religious institutions have spent too much time and money protecting the institution from its people instead of protecting the people from their institution. What is needed is for them to take up the task of protecting their people, even when that means admitting they have failed them."
Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune
Areas of expertise
- Professional ethics and abuse by religious leaders
- Religion and sexual or domestic violence
- The role of religious traditions in ending violence against women and children
- Domestic violence in the military
Topics in the News
- Deposition of Church provided therapists in clergy abuse cases
- Reform of Diocesan administrative rules
- Domestic violence and the military
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Since 1976, Marie Fortune has been a pioneer in the field of religion and domestic violence and a leading national expert on sexual exploitation by religious leaders. She is the Founder and Senior Analyst at the Seattle-based FaithTrust Institute (formerly the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence). Rev. Fortune is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ as well as an author, educator, practicing ethicist and theologian. She served on the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1994–2002 and currently serves on the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence for the US Defense Department. She is also the editor of the Journal of Religion and Abuse.
- Is Nothing Sacred? The Story of a Pastor, the Women he Sexually Abused, and the Congregation he Nearly Destroyed (United Church Press, 1999)
- Keeping the Faith: Guidance for Christian Women Facing Abuse (Harper, 1995)
- Love Does No Harm: Sexual Ethics for the
Rest of Us
(Continuum Publishing Group, 1998)
- Centre Daily Times, June 10, 2007, Accountability Must Follow Remorse
- Copley News Service, March 25, 2007, "Sex offender's request to join proves to be tempest for church"
- Grace Matters, January 14, 2007, "Domination is anything but holy"
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 13, 2007 "Religious organizations work together to end domestic abuse" (Op-ed)
- Grand Rapids Press, November 1, 2005 "Churches must serve as 'healing space' in domestic violence, expert says"
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 25, 2005 "Is it OK to be gay and a priest? Visits to seminaries raise question of linking abuse, homosexuality"
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 26, 2005 "Church could have prevented molestations, lawsuit claims"
- Dallas Morning News, April 14, 2005 "Abuse Panelist Has Past Official Who May Review Pastor's Case Admitted Sex Misconduct in '96"
- Philadelphia Inquirer, June 17, 2005 "Muslims strike at spouse abuse" (This piece was also picked up by the Chicago Tribune)
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FaithTrust
Institute
(formerly the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence)
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