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Religion that harms
Drawing on both research and personal experience, therapist Laura Anderson explores the trauma caused by high-control religion.
Trauma and embodiment
Hillary McBride draws on psychology and theology to encourage us to befriend our bodies.
by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
Take & read: Practical theology
New books that are shaping conversations about practical theology
by Mary Clark Moschella
God's love, our bodies
Turned toward one another in worship, we experience the grace of God's gaze.
by Isaac S. Villegas
Who decides what my body means?
The next Reformation is about interpretation, but not of a book.
by Brian Bantum
This collection is suffused with one of poetry’s most fundamental aims: making meaning out of suffering and loss.
by Anya Silver
Flesh is indeterminate. It flows, changes over time, and is consumed and transformed. It becomes the reality of rich spiritual encounter.
by Jacob J. Erickson
It is not enough for the prophet to declare God’s consolation—it is framed in visions of loud singing and dancing.