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Books:
Wallace, Mark I. Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and the Renewal of Creation. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity, 2002.
Mainstream Western Christian culture often perpetuates a theology of hierarchy and commodification of…
It only takes a cursory glance at human behavior and history to understand that we need community. It is not just for convenience that we root ourselves into a group, or grow up in some sort of family. We crave connection and need it on a deep, core level; to the point that we will suffer…
In Chapter 3 of “The Body Keeps the Score,” our group read about how trauma remains part of our story, as it literally alters the mapping of our brain. Trauma is physically held in the body, and the body doesn’t lie in the same way our mind does. We asked the question, “What…
Taken Names, Devoured People: Andrea Smith’s “Spiritual Appropriation as Sexual Violence” in Native Cultures
In honor of our penultimate blogpost as All Night, we have decided to pull a page from the writings of women that we have been gifted with this term, and share our individual experiences of this latest offering…
Landscape and Love: Eco-theology
In our discussion around trauma and eco-theology, we attended to several readings. We read Chapter 13 in The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, and Davia brought in her reading of Andrea…
Eschatology explores a vast array of questions regarding the end times, including what happens…
The Lasting Wounds of “Unnatural” and “Broken”