Katie Prudek Lin

Perinatal Eucharist

Katie Prudek Lin explores Christ as Mother, with a little help from Julian of Norwich and her own experience of childbirth.

Brandon Wrencher

Our Cries for Equity

Brandon Wrencher offers a theological and liberationist reading of the story of Cain and Abel.

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Natasha Duquette

Songs of Lament and Hope

Natasha Duquette explores the themes of lament and healing in the poetry of three Canadian women.

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Whitney Williams

Cracks

A woman wrestles with how post-traumatic stress disorder affects her daily life and faith.

Margaret Trim

God’s Child: A New Imagination in Trauma Healing

Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to define themselves by their past experiences. Central to the healing process is a restructuring of one’s imagination of self and the world. In her book Trauma and Recovery, the psychiatrist Judith Herman describes hope as the final stage of recovery […]

Shea Tuttle

Words I Couldn’t Say

I. Breast, n. either of the pair of mammary glands extending from the front of the chest in pubescent and adult human females and some other mammals the seat of emotion and thought[1]   When my breasts started to develop in early puberty, I thought I had cancer. On a family visit to my grandparents’ […]

Libby Swope Wiersema

Conchology

The poet Libby Swope Wiersema writes on grief and healing.