Mary Crushes the Head of the Serpent

a quick thought on trauma and the hope of healing

When forced to think about trauma, Christians, for good reason, think of Christ’s wounds. We take them (rightly) as proofs of his solidarity with us and prefigurations of our own healing. This is how Diane Langberg puts it in Suffering and the Heart of God:

When we look at the resurrected Christ, what do we see? Scars. Thomas put his hands in Jesus’s w…