“Trauma” Articles

You don’t wait for institutions to become trustworthy, or people to become good, or the city to become clean before deciding whether it’s worth fighting for.

A flawed mother and daughter together illustrate that grace doesn’t erase the rap sheet—it reframes it.

Poor Things reflects a dark and scathing image of our world, of our disordered longings, and of the quest to satisfy them.

When this allegorical behemoth lumbers through our lives, we are helpless in the wake of its devastation.

Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always has more to offer than the tale of a single choice to be praised or condemned, for Autumn’s choices are rarely her own.

Smile conveys the deep incapability of the human will in fighting our own battles.

The most basic hopefulness present in every autobiographical disaster tale is its very existence. The name of the author on the front cover, together with their picture on the back flap, proclaims to the reader, “I survived.”

After all, to turn inward, to turn away from the world, is that not also a type of violence?

Who are you? Who am I? These are the mysteries tackled in this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

In striving to move forward and figure out who he is, Thor feels the need to atone for his past failures.

It’s not excusing his hurtful, hedonistic behavior to observe that something is broken inside Bob Fosse.

Part of Hannah Gadsby’s subversive power consists in the fact she still manages to be hilarious even as she refuses to let us rest in the abridgments necessary to her former punchlines.

Lynch offers a sort of witness bearing that is desperately needed in an age as numb and distracted as our own.

We are inherently relational creatures, and when we suffer, we suffer communally. Trauma is everyone’s problem.

Jessica Jones illustrates the ontological, spiritual, and moral anxiety of abuse, as well as what Paul Tillich calls “the courage to be.”

Don’t forget what ‘The Hunger Games’ is really about.