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Bezig met laden... All Our Griefs to Bear: Responding With Resilience After Collective Traumadoor Joni S. Sancken
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"Where do our churches go from here? Church and Christian community look a lot different than they did before the horrors of the coronavirus pandemic, racial trauma, and economic uncertainty revealed difficult truths about the wounds we carry. The damage caused by trauma is deep and affects every part of our lives together. At the same time, the pandemic has upended or called into question many of our traditional ministry models. For those tasked with leading congregations through this disorienting new territory, the challenges are great indeed. Yet God's people are amazingly resilient. In All Our Griefs to Bear, author Joni S. Sancken builds on her own trauma-aware background and engages leading sociologists and mental health professionals to name some of the largest issues that congregations now face and will face as we process the cascading trauma of our time. Chapters focus on practices such as lament, storytelling, and blessing to help leaders and church members to nurture resilience and compassion. We cannot go back to who we were before. But the church can experience new life and renewal in the wake of trauma as God's healing and hope move through us into our world"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)248.866Religions Christian Devotional Literature and Practical Theology Christian Life; experience and practice Christian Living for specific groups Christian Living for those in Distress Christian Living during BereavementLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4)
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I say “unappreciated” because ever since mid-March 2020 almost everyone has seemed bound and determined to try to get “back to normal” or to establish some kind of “new normal.”
But we all went through a pretty harrowing experience. Granted, for some it went deeper and lasted longer than it did for others for various reasons. Yet it seems almost all of us bear the marks of that collective trauma, and in most respects, it remains an untreated collective trauma.
In All Our Griefs to Bear: Responding with Resilience after Collective Trauma (galley received as part of an early review program), Joni Sancken explores collective trauma in terms of and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic experience and ways in which people might well respond to it.
Even though few of us really need an introduction to collective trauma after having lived through the past few years, the author does well in setting forth what it is and some of the reasons it may come about. Collective traumas, as experienced by collectives, do best when there is some kind of collective response. The author highlights three areas in which she believes Christians can do well in collective trauma response: lament, storytelling, and blessing.
Through lament the trauma is recognized for what it is, named as such, and the challenge it presents set before God. Traumas indicate a world which is not entirely at right, and the first step often must be to recognize and declare it. Through storytelling we can contextualize and make sense of who we are and what we have experienced. And we can provide blessings and serve as blessings to others as a means by which to connect and as a way for people to be seen, recognized, and valued.
The author throughout refers to and is informed by psychological and sociological expertise on matters related to collective trauma and resilient response.
This is a good resource. We all would do well to recognize and lament what we’ve all experienced, to try to find ways to make sense of what we’ve experienced in the story of who we are and what we are about, and seek to be blessings to others - and to be willing to receive the blessings others might give us. (