Trauma-Informed Evangelism: Cultivating Communities of Wounded Healers Kiser Charles

"We are at the forefront of a new reformation."So declares Elaine Heath in Trauma-Informed Evangelism, aiming to recover the God of love from the structures of hate that pervade Christian communities in America today. While carefully listening to these stories, Kiser and Heath bring them into conversation with the passion and resurrection of Jesus. In their new guide, she and Charles Kiser work toward bringing this reformation to fruition through ministering specifically to the spiritually traumatized.Over the course of their study, Kiser and Heath amplify the voices of those who suffered misogynistic, racist, or homophobic abuse at the hands of the church.

Ultimately, this theodicy leads them to propose Engaging with womanist and liberation theology, they see in the crucifixion a God who does not valorize suffering but shares the experience of the traumatized.