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The present study tested a hypothesized model of the degree of belief in penal substitutionary atonement (PSA) predicting a negative association with a sense of responsibility for reducing pain and [...]

Life following an overwhelming event of violence is fundamentally changed. Survivors struggle to reconcile their present experience of life--reconfigured through trauma--with their experience of faith. When individuals and religious communities try to put the events behind them and proclaim the good news before its time, they fail to attend to the ongoing realities of a death that do not go away. This essay explores a theology that witnesses to what remains. Key words: Spirit, Trauma, PTSD, Redemption, Hurricane Katrina, Combat, I am standing in Deacon Julius Lee's backyard. There is nothing there, except for the cement sidewalk pieces and remnants of a washed-out foundation.(1) As I look to the right. [...]

by Thomas G. Long Eerdmanns, Grand Rapids, 2011. 172 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-8028-6514-4. NOTED PREACIIER AND HOMILETICIAN Thomas Long approaches the perennial questions of God and human suffering with pastoral [...]