Bearing Witness: Intersectional Perspectives on Trauma Theology

Karen O’Donnell is Director of Studies and Lecturer in Worship & Human Community at Westcott House, Cambridge. A feminist, ecumenical, practical theologian, her interdisciplinary research interests span theology, spirituality, and pedagogy. She is the author of Broken Bodies and The Dark Womb, which was longlisted for the 2023 Michael Ramsey Prize.

Katie Cross is Christ’s College Teaching Fellow in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of The Sunday Assembly and Theologies of Suffering (forthcoming).

"The greatest theological challenge we currently face is how to witness with passionate integrity to losses that cannot be healed and suffering that does not go away. This brave and inspiring collection teaches us to attend both to the intense particularity of trauma and the way trauma is structured in collective relationships. It creates a space for the Spirit’s ‘new making’ in contexts that lie beyond repair." -- Heather Walton, University of Glasgow, UK