The Ministry of Empathy: Why Trauma-Informed Faith Communities Matter There’s a quiet shift happening in many ministry spaces right now. People are asking different questions than they used to. Not: “How do we grow faster?” “How do we get more volunteers?” “How do we fix people?” But instead: “How do we create spaces where people…
You Can Be Faithful and Still Recognize Harm By Cerise Woodard, RN, SANE A One of the most painful forms of confusion people experience is believing they must choose between their faith and their safety. As though recognizing harm somehow means they are failing spiritually. I’ve seen this tension show up in many ways over…
Bandaids, Peroxide, and Bearing One Another’s Burdens My best friend and I were having a conversation about bandaids and peroxide. Not because either of us spends much time thinking about first aid kits, but because somewhere in the middle of talking about life, healing, and survival, those became the metaphors that made the most sense….