Empathetic Witness
Charles KiserTrauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness. - Gabor Mate
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The Bible’s Violent Theological Imagination
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I recently finished David Carr’s book Holy Resilience: The Bible’s Traumatic Origins and it’s giving me a lot to think about. Carr is an expert on the history and development of the Bible into the...
Victim Mentality and Chosen Traumas
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“No one can fall back on being a victim.”
This sentiment, I’m discovering, is a common point of resistance to religious trauma healing work. It’s the concern that focusing on trauma and the ways peopl...
A Dissonant Advent
The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In days to come
the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains
and shall be raised above the hills;
all the...
Empathetic Witness Cohort
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“Trauma is what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness,” says Dr. Gabor Maté. The chances are high that all of us know someone with religious trauma, whether or not we realize it. The Global Cen...
New Book Release!
Last month I finished a five-part series here on “elements of trauma-responsive formation.”
In the series, I shared what I learned from interviews with several of my colleagues — pastors, therapists, and educators — about how they became t...
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I’m a pastor and theologian who is working at the intersection of Christian ministry and healing religious trauma. I am the coauthor with Elaine Heath of Trauma-Informed Evangelism: Cultivating Communities of Wounded Healers.
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