Perinatal Eucharist
Katie Prudek Lin explores Christ as Mother, with a little help from Julian of Norwich and her own experience of childbirth.
Katie Prudek Lin explores Christ as Mother, with a little help from Julian of Norwich and her own experience of childbirth.
Heather Caliri contemplates serving the beast.
Brandon Wrencher offers a theological and liberationist reading of the story of Cain and Abel.
Natasha Duquette explores the themes of lament and healing in the poetry of three Canadian women.
A woman wrestles with how post-traumatic stress disorder affects her daily life and faith.
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 […]
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’ […]
The poet Libby Swope Wiersema writes on grief and healing.
In this essay, Jay Stringer argues that healing and addiction share the same architecture: repetition. The extent to which we turn to face our trauma and shame is the best predictor for the way our story will unfold.