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Dr. Botner sits down with Drs. Charles Kiser and Elaine Heath to discuss their new book, Trauma-Informed Evangelism: Cultivating Communities of Wounded Healers. Kiser and Heath discuss the damage of toxic theology and ministry models in the church, and provide a hopeful model for cultivating communities of wounded healers. We discuss why it is imperative for Christians to learn to hear the pain of our neighbors; how trauma studies and the categories of trauma and spiritual abuse are vital resources for ministry; and the beauty of the incarnation, in which the Son of God appears as both a gracious guest and a survivor of trauma.
Dr. Charles Kiser is a pastor and theologian with Storyline Christian Community in Dallas, Texas, a network of missional communities he helped to form. He is passionate about creative expressions of Christian community, contemplative spirituality, and healing spiritual trauma. Kiser has a DMin in Contextual Theology from Northern Seminary and serves as a faculty member of Neighborhood Seminary.
Dr. Elaine Heath is the author of eleven books and numerous articles, the most recent books being Loving the Hell Out of Ourselves (and Others) (Birch & Alder, 2021), coauthored with her sister, Jeanine Heath-McGlinn. She formerly served as Dean of the Divinity School at Duke University, where she was also professor of missional and pastoral theology, and the McCreless Professor of Evangelism at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Heath cofounded two nonprofits: Missional Wisdom Foundation, and Neighborhood Seminary, a contextualized model of missional theological education for laity. Heath is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and served in pastoral ministry prior to her academic ministry. She currently lives with her husband at Spring Forest, an intentional Christian community and farm in rural North Carolina where she serves as abbess.
Grab your copy of Trauma-Informed Evangelism 👉https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Informed-Evangelism-Cultivating-Communities-Wounded/dp/0802882358/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LE97G0FBYRGZ&keywords=trauma-informed+evangelism&qid=1694207152&sprefix=trauma-informed+evan%2Caps%2C196&sr=8-1
Check out Dr. Heath's other books 👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elaine-A.-Heath/author/B001JSD5Z4?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
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Dr. Botner sits down with Drs. Charles Kiser and Elaine Heath to discuss their new book, Trauma-Informed Evangelism: Cultivating Communities of Wounded Healers. Kiser and Heath discuss the damage of toxic theology and ministry models in the church, and provide a hopeful model for cultivating communities of wounded healers. We discuss why it is imperative for Christians to learn to hear the pain of our neighbors; how trauma studies and the categories of trauma and spiritual abuse are vital resources for ministry; and the beauty of the incarnation, in which the Son of God appears as both a gracious guest and a survivor of trauma.
Dr. Charles Kiser is a pastor and theologian with Storyline Christian Community in Dallas, Texas, a network of missional communities he helped to form. He is passionate about creative expressions of Christian community, contemplative spirituality, and healing spiritual trauma. Kiser has a DMin in Contextual Theology from Northern Seminary and serves as a faculty member of Neighborhood Seminary.
Dr. Elaine Heath is the author of eleven books and numerous articles, the most recent books being Loving the Hell Out of Ourselves (and Others) (Birch & Alder, 2021), coauthored with her sister, Jeanine Heath-McGlinn. She formerly served as Dean of the Divinity School at Duke University, where she was also professor of missional and pastoral theology, and the McCreless Professor of Evangelism at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Heath cofounded two nonprofits: Missional Wisdom Foundation, and Neighborhood Seminary, a contextualized model of missional theological education for laity. Heath is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and served in pastoral ministry prior to her academic ministry. She currently lives with her husband at Spring Forest, an intentional Christian community and farm in rural North Carolina where she serves as abbess.
Grab your copy of Trauma-Informed Evangelism 👉https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Informed-Evangelism-Cultivating-Communities-Wounded/dp/0802882358/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LE97G0FBYRGZ&keywords=trauma-informed+evangelism&qid=1694207152&sprefix=trauma-informed+evan%2Caps%2C196&sr=8-1
Check out Dr. Heath's other books 👉 https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elaine-A.-Heath/author/B001JSD5Z4?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
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