Healing Pastors

This is my third post in a row pointing to other places I’m writing. I haven’t abandoned Words on the Word, but I am excited to have started a new blog that had been an idea for months: Healing Pastors.

What it’s about:

Healing Pastors helps pastors bring greater trauma sensitivity to their congregations, while also helping pastors process and heal from their own trauma.

So far there are five posts:

1. 1. Healing Pastors: A Fragmentary Manifesto   
      Cometh the hour, cometh the (hu)man.
      
      
   2. Trauma-Informed Worship Leading of “It Is Well”: Something I Think Worked, Something that Definitely Didn’t   
      What if it’s not “well with my soul”?
      
      
   3. Prayer that Despairs, Even of God?   
      “I want to hit you… and hug you… and run away… all at the same time!”
      
      
   4. 4 Bluebirds Before an Interval Run: The Easy Yoke of Healing   
      The only way out is through? Tell it to the birds.
      
      
   5. Speaking—or Not—in the Aftermath: (Post) Trauma Rock   
      A genre of music that needs to be a THING.
      

Substack has paid subscriptions available. Anyone can become a “paid subscriber” to Healing Pastors, which as of now offers the sole benefit of supporting the work. Everyone can read everything there for free.

And more will follow. (Now writing: Where are the Psalms of Bathsheba?)

Find it all here, and feel free to subscribe to have future posts delivered to your probably already overcrowded inbox, but I hope that Healing Pastors emails/posts will be life-giving to you!