Spiritual Practices, Traumatic Shame, and Holy Freedom

Recently I read Laura E. Anderson’s When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion. Anderson, a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and herself a survivor of high-control religion, offers an unflinching look at the many ways that religion can cause harm, even (and especially) under the guise of protecting its “flock” from sin or evil. I think this is an important book because while Anderson is clear about the problems that are caused by religion...