Spiritual trauma is when difficult emotions are spiritualized and you are taught to fear and repress them: the resulting dissociation is taken as a sign of spiritual maturity or moral superiority.
02765 – Spiritual Trauma
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01251 – Sacrifice Goes with Spiritual Maturity
Some growth experts…have said those who pursue blended styles merely take turns “insulting different segments of the congregation.” But we believe otherwise; blended styles are the result of shared sacrifice and spiritual maturity. Traditional congregations committed...
00860 – The Arts are Not Simply Skills
The arts are not simply skills: Their concern is the intellectual, ethical and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human...