Asian American Immigrants and Generational Trauma

Queer Christian Trauma

The Lasting Wounds of “Unnatural” and “Broken”

The Impossibility of Utopian Society, The Resurrection of Hope

Reflections on João Batista Libânio’s “Utopia, Hope, Resurrection”

This week on the Mad Liberation front, we discussed João Batista Libânio’s…

Why does skin color matter?

This paper is from my perspective, a white girl, who has only glimpsed at the rejection found in the black american race. My perspective is one who wants to group everyone as fellow human’s instead of calling attention to race and color. In feeling the tension of race through experience and…

The Mysterious Possibility of Reciprocity with Nature

“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives… [Yet] social support is not the same as merely being in the…

The Pushing and Shoving of Justice; Black Eschatology

“Ethics and eschatology are related in Black Theology. This is the basis of black hope. This is the…

heirlooms and accessories: “the anthem of dissociation” — the memory, the church, and the trauma.

the memory…

Kin-dom Familia: A Collective Eschatology

Last Wednesday, the Womanist/Mujerista/Post-Colonial Feminist group stepped into the…

The Role of Language in Healing Trauma

The Cone Heads gathered together this past week to discuss the book, The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk. In reading this text we read through the lens of trauma within the African American community. In chapter four, titled “Running for your life…

Cone Heads: Black Eschatological Hope

This week our reading pod drew from two separate authors and articles by James Cone and Deotis Roberts. Both theologians passionately argue that an eschatological perspective must be grounded in the historical present, thereby “forcing the oppressed community to…