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Transforming Religious Trauma: Part 1
Faith communities should be, and often are, safe places where people can explore their connection to the sacred in ways that are expansive and life-giving. However, many in Oklahoma grew up in communities that were oppressive, unhealthy, or even abusive. This can impact spiritual well-being in profound ways that often necessitates deconstructing and healing. Join us for this important conversation here on our YouTube channel.
Resources recommended:
Traumatized by Religious Abuse: Discover the Cultures and Systems of Religious Abuse and Reclaim Your Personal Power. Baker, Connie (2019)
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation. Bolz-Weber, Nadia (2019)
How We Sleep at Night. Cunningham, Sara (2014)
Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump. Denker, Angela (2019)
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity. Finch, Jamie Lee (2019)
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs. Jeffs, Rachel (2017)
HERETIC: A memoir. Kadlec, Jeanna (2022)
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps-Roper, Megan (2019)
Leaving the Fold: A guide for former fundamentalists and others leaving their religion. Winell, Marlene (1993)
You can contact Rachel at www.collaborative-ct.com.
The Secular Therapy Project is the name of the organization that includes secular therapists - their website is a great resource for finding a therapist, and it has other information on there as well: https://www.seculartherapy.org/.
Community Conversation with Dean Robert Willis
The Very Rev. Dr. Robert Willis is a theologian, hymn-writer and pastor. He served as Dean of Canterbury, running the mother church of the Anglican Communion and the King’s School, Canterbury, (the world’s oldest school, founded by St Augustine in 597) and advising three archbishops, government and the crown from 2001 to 2022.
Dean Willis will be visiting Oklahoma, and speaking to us on cultivating hope, progressive faith, and the dangers of extremism.
Dean Willis is most recently well-known for the broadcasts of Morning Prayer that he and his civil-partner of 22 years, Fletcher Banner, made every day for 26 months during the COVID-19 pandemic, which attracted and still attracts millions of views from all over the world of people of all faiths and none (www.youtube.com/@GardenCongregation). Conservation and wildlife are close to his heart and have resulted in Dean Robert being nicknamed “the Green Dean” by many.