Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The author discussed her book on trauma, explaining that not only individuals but also entire communities experience trauma, often repressing it instead of addressing the harm. She described how writing the book brought to light the deep human desire to repress trauma and how the harm often haunts until the story is told and the truth is faced.
one of the things that I learned from life but it came to the fore in writing the book on trauma is that not just individuals but whole communities undergo trauma.
— Episode: Serene Jones — Grace in a Fractured Worl...
Episode: Serene Jones — Grace in a Fractured World
The author discussed her book on trauma, explaining that not only individuals but also entire communities experience trauma, often repressing it instead of addressing the harm. She described how writing the book brought to light the deep human desire to repress trauma and how the harm often haunts until the story is told and the truth is faced.
one of the things that I learned from life but it came to the fore in writing the book on trauma is that not just individuals but whole communities undergo trauma.
Episode: [Unedited] Serene Jones with Krista Tippett
This book explores the concept of trauma, not only on an individual level but also for entire communities, and how the desire to repress trauma can haunt individuals and society until the truth of the harm is faced. The author's personal experiences with her family history in Oklahoma are incorporated.
I once was a happy but confused Christian child and now I am a wiser, still fundamentally happy yet humbled Christian leader. Humbled by life and by my own understanding of the complexities, horrors, and gifts of the Christian faith.
Theology is a place and a story. Theology is the place and the story you think of when you ask yourself about the meaning of your life, of the world, of the possibility of God.
This land is your land, this land is my land from California to the New York Island. I've never sung in public before. This land is made for you and me.
As I went walking, I saw a sign there and on the sign it said, no trespassing. But on the other side, it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me. And then he sings, and in the shadow of the steeple, I saw my people. By the relief office, I seen my people. And they stood there hungry and I stood there asking, is this land made for you and me?
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. And then James Baldwin says, I use the word love here, not merely in the personal sense, but as a state of being or a state of grace. Not in the infantile American sense of being made happy, but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.