My latest op-ed in The Forest Grove Leader, a publication of The Oregonian:

A national conversation about violence against women has been jump-started by the release of Jimmy Carter's new book "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power."

We need this discussion and it is needed now. It is timely that Pacific University's Center for Gender Equity is sponsoring an 8 p.m. "Take Back the Night March" on Wednesday, April 16, to protest sexual violence. As President Carter notes in his book, it is estimated that one in five female students are sexually assaulted.

Answering Jimmy Carter's call to action