Post-Traumatic Jesus: Reading the Gospel with the Wounded

After twenty years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a global pandemic, protests against racial violence, and frequent shootings, more Americans than ever are living with the effects of trauma.The good news is that Jesus was born and died in a traumatized world, and his story speaks forever to wounded people worldwide.Army veteran and Episcopal priest David Peters explores Jesus' life story through the post-traumatic lens with which the Gospel writers first wrote it-as people who had seen their leader executed by the same oppressive government that had already shrouded their whole lives in anxiety and fear.Meeting the post-traumatic Jesus-the only Jesus the world has ever known-can be a balm to the wounds of modern Christians and spiritual seekers.