trauma

A story of a student waking up to the genocidal conquest that founded her country and the contemporary reenactments of this violence.

A college intern interviews torture survivors for the United Nations in a refugee camp and finds herself struggling with secondary trauma.

Brigid Andrews writes about the trauma of birthing and postpartum depression.

In the wake of domestic violence, new kinship structures are crucial to providing safe spaces of healing and to developing communal practices of resistance.

The trauma of God is both God in trauma (i.e., God on the cross) and God as trauma (i.e., God as the cross), crossing one another to place God sous rature (i.e., under the cross), where God becomes no more and no less than a word—but the only word bespeaking a truly universal human community.

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.

When violence strikes a church on a Sunday morning, it challenges us to question the meaning of hell and the power of love.

Cate Whetzel reviews Katie Ford’s “Colosseum,” a book of poems that “record [the] anxiety, trauma, and stunned sense of coping” of “the loss of New Orleans” and “the destruction and devastation of the classical world.”

This article highlights the problem of child exploitation internationally and domestically.