Safeguarding entails protecting people from abusive behaviours. It also means exposing the various toxic beliefs that can lead to such control and damage. No matter how wide the smile as these are preached, or how justified they are by literalisms and certainties, many lives are diminished and injured as a result. By contrast, love is unarmed and disarming, and is the loudest protest to deep hurt given to a soul or a body. Adrian Thatcher names the evil done when theology is beset with our demons. We can only be grateful for the light he shines in some frighteningly dark places.