Healing the Broken Heart of Christian Antiracist Work
Loving through Enmity responds to the failure of US Christian antiracist work to translate love of the enemy into meaningful societal transformation. Beginning with an analysis of the racial enmity that is fundamental to white supremacy, Wickware clarifies an oft-elided distinction between private and structural enmity. While systemic opposition ......
Catholicism entails a challenge. The word catholic means "universal." Yet, that universality is expressed through different rites, languages, jurisdictions, and states of life that are unique and concrete. Today Catholicism's universality faces a still further challenge. It must share the world not only with Protestants of various kinds, but also ......
Cindy S. Lee calls for spiritual directors to serve as contemplative witnesses to injustices when BIPOC people's sacredness is dismissed. Contemplative Witnessing equips spiritual directors who want to help BIPOC people cultivate a liberating spirituality so we can encounter restorative, divine movements in and around ourselves.
What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals about Masculinity
As a trans man, Shannon Kearns constructed his relationship with masculinity using bits and pieces from the world around him: male behavior, portrayals in movies, and unspoken cultural expectations. In No One Taught Me How to Be a Man, Kearns takes masculinity head-on, pointing cis and trans men alike toward better ways of being in the world.
Why Traditional Soteriology Requires a Trans Savior
By assigning responsibility for sin to Adam and credit for salvation to Christ, Paul removed Eve from salvation history. This book revises Paul's original formula and, with it, common claims about Christ's sex and gender. It accepts Christ as both the new Adam and the new Eve and accepts that Christ is, theologically speaking, trans.
Cody J. Sanders's Spiritual Care First Aid provides instruction in the basics of spiritual care in a way that nearly anyone can use. A field guide to serving as a spiritual-care first responder whenever and wherever help is needed, the book offers an accessible approach of hearing, helping, and healing.
An extraordinary account of a Black church that gives its neighbors a space to share grief and find community, No One Left Alone offers a simple truth: the wounded heal best together. In the tradition of writers like Bryan Stevenson, Liz Walker joins healing to justice, showing how community helps us transfigure the traumas that encircle us.
As awareness of the widespread presence of trauma grows, popular culture can name everything stressful "traumatic." Yet, diagnostic definitions of trauma overlook cultural understandings that refine our concept of trauma. In Reframing Trauma, M. Jan Holton and Jill L. Snodgrass offer a theory and theology of trauma to navigate such complexities.
