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Understanding Trauma

A Biblical Introduction for Church Care

Steve Midgley
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Guidance for churches on how to walk with wisdom and compassion alongside those who are struggling with trauma.

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Many of us long to serve and be there for those who are suffering from trauma, but we don't know how to do so in a way that is caring and helpful.

This book enables Christians, and especially pastors, elders and ministry leaders, to understand what trauma is, and how it affects people, including their experience of church, so that we can lovingly support those who are suffering from it.  

Author Steve Midgley trained as a psychiatrist before being ordained, served as Vicar of Christ Church Cambridge for 18 years and is now the Executive Director of Biblical Counselling UK. He writes with wisdom and compassion to summarise current understanding in this area, gives a biblical perspective, and makes lots of practical suggestions about how churches can be sensitive to, and be there for, those who have experienced trauma. 

This book will help whole church communities to help and care for those who are struggling with trauma.

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Contents

  • Part One: The Experience of Trauma
    1. The Bible's Stories of Trauma
    2. Personal Accounts of Trauma
    3. Trauma and Church
    4. Jesus' Comfort

    Part Two: Approaches to Trauma
    5. The Contemporary Thinking
    6. Trauma and Memory
    7. Trauma and the Body
    8. Biblical Categories for Engaging with Trauma

    Part Three: Church Responses to Trauma
    9. A Thoughtful Welcome
    10. Kind Conversations
    11. The Comfort of God
    12. A Place for Lament

    Part Four: Broader Reflections
    13. New Insights for Churches
    14. Some Words of Caution

    Epilogue: Doing Church Well

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Contributors Steve Midgley
ISBN 9781802541373
Format Paperback
First published March 2025
Dimensions 135mm x 216mm x 11mm
Weight 0.24 kg
Language English
Pages 208
Publisher The Good Book Company
Endorsements

Michael R. Emlet

Faculty Member, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation; author, CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet and Descriptions and Prescriptions

When faced with the complex pastoral needs of those who have expe- rienced trauma, we can err either by rushing forward to care for these sufferers without requisite knowledge and skill or by outsourcing all care to secular trauma specialists as if the church has little to offer. Steve’s wise and thoughtful book charts a better way. Working from the conviction that Scripture provides the deepest perspective on the experience of trauma, he summarizes current trauma research, builds a biblical understanding of the multifaceted suffering associated with trauma, and demonstrates in practical ways how the church can and must play a central role in the care of those who have endured extreme suffering and its aftermath.


Jason Roach

Senior Minister, The Bridge: Battersea Community Church, London

All those seeking to support those who have experienced trauma should read this book. It is biblically rooted, medically accurate and practically helpful. I will be recommending this to all of our missionaries.


Curtis Solomon

Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition

Compassion and courage are both necessary for anyone who wants to care for those who have been disoriented by trauma. Steve Midgley provides both to his readers. The wisdom found in this book will help church members and church leaders understand the experiences of people who have faced severe suffering, and give them courage to help those who are navigating the dark waters of trauma. 


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