"Cultivating a Gospel Response to Trauma"

I was invited to be a speaker for a Courageous Conversation event this Thursday hosted by Awake.

Courageous Conversations is an online speaker series designed to “build community, deepen understanding, encourage conversation, and inspire personal action in response to the complex issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.”

This month’s topic is how to foster trauma-informed church communities and spaces "that are sensitive to the needs of survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic leaders.”

I was humbled and honored to be asked to participate in this event. Especially alongside Pete Singer, from GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment), the author of the excellent article: Toward a More Trauma-Informed Church: Equipping Faith Communities to Prevent and Respond to Abuse.

Making the Church more trauma-informed is not only important in our pastoral care and evangelization efforts, but I believe having a preferential option for survivors of trauma it’s an essential aspect of our identity as Christians.

You can join this event live at 1:00pm (EST) this Thursday, November 21. More details and registration can be found here: https://www.awakecommunity.org/courageous-conversations