A Practical Theology for Trauma-Informed Work

A Practical Theology For Trauma-Informed Work 

What’s up TRC and Friends?!  

I recognize that the language of “trauma-informed” does not translate well in TRC’s evangelical conservative world and tribe.  

Part of my role at this symposium is to help in the translation of the reality of what hard things does to the human neurologically into a language people in my theological world can get behind and understand.  

Facts are facts. Hard stuff does a number on human being’s central nervous system, and just because the Bible does not address neuroscience in a book, chapter, and verse does not negate the reality.  

Proverbs 25:2 reminds us there are some things the wise Creator Jesus has hidden for us to discover. Gravity is a reality discovered because we experience it. How to help heal a person who has been affected by hard thing is a reality being discovered in good neuroscience, and we must learn to make application in our local churches.  

This is particularly important when we rightly encourage our people to foster and adopt the babies we are seeing rescued from all manner of systems, including those who have been trafficked.  

We can’t assume that the same methods work for our bios will work exactly the same with those we foster and adopt. We know this first hand at Casa de Jolly.  

Here is a short little video Flagler College put together from our work there a few weeks ago.  

You may recognize a couple of folks.  

Please hit me up with questions, and maybe we can do a podcast on this.