embodiment
Religion that harms
Drawing on both research and personal experience, therapist Laura Anderson explores the trauma caused by high-control religion.
Trauma and embodiment
Hillary McBride draws on psychology and theology to encourage us to befriend our bodies.
Take & read: Practical theology
New books that are shaping conversations about practical theology
God's love, our bodies
Turned toward one another in worship, we experience the grace of God's gaze.
Who decides what my body means?
The next Reformation is about interpretation, but not of a book.
by Brian Bantum
Poetic nothingness
This collection is suffused with one of poetry’s most fundamental aims: making meaning out of suffering and loss.
by Anya Silver
Carnal theology
Flesh is indeterminate. It flows, changes over time, and is consumed and transformed. It becomes the reality of rich spiritual encounter.
An embodied ideal: Jeremiah 31:7-14; John 1:(1-9), 10-18
Whether we choose to believe it or not, we human beings are embodied creatures. There have been many times throughout the history of philosophy and religion when great thinkers have tried to minimize or deny the physicality of human existence. Simple phrases such as “mind over matter” and biblical passages such as 1 Corinthians 9:27, “but I punish my body and enslave it,” have contributed to the misleading belief that we are at our best as human beings when some spiritual core that is separate from our physical nature governs our lives.