Tag Archives: healing

Women, religion and rights

In 2011, I attended and led a discussion group for the Carter Center’s Human Rights Defenders Forum, with the theme of Religion, Belief and Women’s Rights.  You can learn more about that forum in my short post at the Immanent Frame. The Carter Center, along with its partners across the globe, sponsored a follow-up toContinue reading “Women, religion and rights”

Sexual assault, trauma and the brain

Last weekend I went to the annual meeting for the Society for Pastoral Theology (SPT), where along with my colleague and friend Abigail Holland Conley, I presented a workshop on gender-based violence, narrative and healing.  During our workshop, we used interactive exercises to help participants to understand the barriers that survivors face when reporting orContinue reading “Sexual assault, trauma and the brain”