Review of Spirit & Trauma

by Elliot Huemann

Review of Resurrecting Wounds

by Elizabeth F.

God Is Found Where You Have Trembled

Post #1 by the Spacetime Travelers

As embodied human creatures in the presence of that which overwhelms us, we tremble. This principle is referenced throughout scripture as people encounter the divine and their bodies manifest a dramatic…

The Trauma of Racism

Womanists, post #3

Our Womanist group chose to process the integration of racism and trauma through reading Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas,¹ The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk,² and Trauma and Recovery by…

Constructing a Theology of Lament in Response to Collective Trauma

Prophetic Lament and Collective Trauma, post #1

Near and Far: Seeing Resurrection through Bodies of Trauma

Soma & Sarx post #2

Positioned in front of a window on the 4th floor of The Seattle School is a telescope. It isn’t that the view of the mountains is lacking seen plainly from the window, but the…

Trauma: Where are we? Where are Others? Where is God?

Lamentations, Bodily Memory, and Literature, post #1

Soma & Sarx

post #1

Bessel van der Kolk, in his eye-opening book The Body Keeps the Score¹ unveils the neurobiological consequences of trauma. We enter the stories embodied through people of whom have been markedly changed by a traumatic experience. It is as if van der Kolk is taking the…

Review of Resurrecting Wounds

by Michele Rogers

Lament and the Body

Fuster Cluck, post #1