Posts Tagged ‘trauma’

When and where trauma and theology meet

Thursday, September 19th, 2019
George Pell

“I hated my body. It fundamentally let me down. The trauma of miscarriage, reproductive loss and infertility changed who I was, changed my whole life, and I blamed my body. My body had failed to do the one thing I felt, as a woman, it ought to be able to do.” With these words, Karen Read more

Trauma: an occupational hazard for missionaries

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

The biblical mandate to “go therefore and make disciples of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19), should have come with this disclaimer: If you are a missioner in a conflict zone, your emotional and psychological well-being will be shredded, you will destroy your life as you currently know it and, by the way, you may be Read more