Bekah Legg
Bekah Legg is CEO of Restored, a Christian organisation with a mission to speak up about violence against women and equip the church to stand against domestic abuse and with survivors. She has previously worked as a teacher and a church leader and is married to Steve. Together they have raised five fabulous girls and fostered more in a glorious if sometimes crazy blended family.
When a full life sentence isn't enough
6 October 2021My heart goes out to her family. The details that have been revealed would haunt any parent. It’s simply unimaginable. It is a small mercy that they were saved from a prolonged case by a guilty plea and there must be some relief that this man, I will not say his name, will never see the light of day again as he is sentenced to a whole life in prison. It is fitting and right that it is so. But it doesn’t bring back Sarah, it didn’t stop Sabina from being killed, and it doesn’t make the streets…
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Domestic violence: Is your church doing enough?
28 June 2021When I imagine that scene, the people of God coming together in holy horror and grief, I can see similarities between the scenes we witnessed after the murder of George Floyd and during the vigil on Clapham Common, London, following the murder of Sarah Everard: a collective outpouring of grief and anger as one person’s story comes to represent so many more. What happened to Floyd was wicked in and of itself, but it resonated with the everyday experience of black men and women, all around the…
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