When everyone is traumatized, caregiving takes on new dimensions.
trauma
Are we trapped by the way others see us?
Brit Bennett’s novel explores racial passing, gender transition, and family trauma.
How dying churches abuse pastors
Gene Fowler examines why traumatized congregations so often attack their leaders.
Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away
Take & read: Practical theology
New books that are shaping conversations about practical theology
Pastoral care that meets addiction at its source
Sonia Waters sees pain and trauma at the heart of this particular type of soul sickness.
In Luke’s postresurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic.
Trauma survivors are in your congregation. How will you help them heal?
Christy Gunter Sim, a trauma expert and domestic violence survivor, offers case studies for church leaders.
When illness undoes us
Deanna Thompson's book about cancer takes us where we don't want to go but must.
As religious leaders, we cannot ignore what the events surrounding the confirmation hearings are doing, especially to our bodies.
In the wake of violence, pastors have to lead people out of hell. Jesus has been there.
At home in exile
In a time of American inhospitality, Jan Holton offers a compelling vision.
As CC books editor, I get to peruse a lot of books. Too bad I can’t review them all.
What soldiers come home to
Can Christians display a life together that’s as compelling as war?
“White privilege is your history being taught as a core class and mine being taught as an elective,” wrote a tumblr user in February of 2014. This claim illustrates how education sins in its ignorance. Latin American liberation theologians taught that sin consists not only of personal misdeeds—it is also embedded in social structures that promote harm and inequity.