October 15, 2015 / Creative Writing
The poet Donald Paris writes about his father.
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Dean Dettloff
October 8, 2015 / Theology
October 8, 2015 / Theology
With the help of Søren Kierkegaard, Dean Dettloff explores how traumatic experience alienates us from ourselves, our world, and our faith—and yet gets resolved through the wondrous renewal of life itself.
David Pettit
September 14, 2015 / Praxis
September 14, 2015 / Praxis
Pain and trauma can lead us beyond the limits of our conceptual frameworks to new ways of connecting with God and others.
Chelle Stearns & Shelly Rambo
August 31, 2015 / Theology
August 31, 2015 / Theology
Christian theologies of suffering often move too quickly to redemption, but in this interview with Shelly Rambo, she advocates a theology that remains in the ambiguous middle space between life and death, bearing witness to how trauma lingers in human experience.
Hilary Jerome Scarsella
July 27, 2015 / Theology
July 27, 2015 / Theology
Is God’s love of any material benefit to trauma survivors, particularly to survivors of sexualized violence?
Georgiana Eliot
July 20, 2015 / Praxis
July 20, 2015 / Praxis
A story of a student waking up to the genocidal conquest that founded her country and the contemporary reenactments of this violence.
Stina Kielsmeier-Cook
July 6, 2015 / Praxis
July 6, 2015 / Praxis
A college intern interviews torture survivors for the United Nations in a refugee camp and finds herself struggling with secondary trauma.
Brigid Andrews
May 18, 2015 / Creative Writing
May 18, 2015 / Creative Writing
Brigid Andrews writes about the trauma of birthing and postpartum depression.
Ashley Theuring
April 20, 2015 / Theology
April 20, 2015 / Theology
In the wake of domestic violence, new kinship structures are crucial to providing safe spaces of healing and to developing communal practices of resistance.