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* Applies popular Christ Walk approach as a path to reconciliation
and healing * Combines physical and spiritual avenues in a holistic
program that anyone can use "Walk it off," that much-used advice of
coaches, turns out to work in the spiritual realm, too. Take a walk
with Anna and David as they explore reconciliation and healing
using the best-selling framework found in Christ Walk: A 40 Day
Spiritual Fitness Program. Through their own experiences with moral
injury, illness, and trauma, the authors have found that sometimes
the best way to deal with stressful experiences is by moving their
feet. Over the course of forty days, readers will experience God in
each stage of the healing process in tandem with a biblically
inspired journey.
After traumatic events, many turn away from the Church; this book
presents a path home, providing a way back to a God who can be
trusted, loved, and worshipped. Today, the church is sometimes
viewed (even from within) as a place apart, which may create a
barrier of understanding for those who have experienced trauma.
Post-Traumatic God grew out of Peters' own experience as a chaplain
in Iraq and later as an Episcopal priest, and from his subsequent
work with an organization he founded, Episcopal Veterans for Peace,
which helped him identify the need for this quite-different book to
bridge that gap. In it, Peters explores three related themes:
history (the early church itself was a post-traumatic community);
theology (especially building on Tillich's World War I experiences
and the theology he subsequently developed); and ecclesiology (how
church can offer community to trauma survivors. Post-Traumatic God
equips the Church to heal the unseen wounds of the soul.
After twenty years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a global
pandemic, protests against racial violence, and frequent shootings,
more Americans than ever are living with the effects of trauma. The
good news is that Jesus was born and died in a traumatized world,
and his story speaks forever to wounded people worldwide. Army
veteran and Episcopal priest David Peters explores Jesus' life
story through the post-traumatic lens with which the Gospel writers
first wrote it-as people who had seen their leader executed by the
same oppressive government that had already shrouded their whole
lives in anxiety and fear. Meeting the post-traumatic Jesus-the
only Jesus the world has ever known-can be a balm to the wounds of
modern Christians and spiritual seekers.
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