Of Course Church Will Hurt Us: How Could It Not?

Examining the Traumatic Church Discourse, Part One

What if harm is an enduring feature of living in the world?

Harm and Life in the Church: A Brief Prologue

For the next four issues, I’m going to be talking about a tricky topic: the harm which happens in church, and what to make of it. We’ll explore how ordinary harm has become conflated with the language of abuse, how …