I aim to study resilience post-traumatic growth and healing among religious trauma survivors as a follow up to my previous book with Elaine Heath Trauma-Informed Evangelism: Cultivating Communities of Wounded Healers (Eerdmans 2023). My methodology is to conduct ethnographic interviews with survivors as part of a grounded theory approach to surface learnings for other survivors and spiritual leaders. I also bring a framework with me that I’d like to test — the threefold sources of resilience developed by Eastern Mennonite University’s Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) and further adapted by Dr. Lisa Collins: 1) body-brain regulation; 2) social support; and 3) spiritual connection. I’m curious how the lived experience of religious trauma survivors compares to this framework. The finished products of the research will be a published book as well as a podcast series that shares interviews with experts survivors and faith leaders on the topic. This research will also ramify into my work with The Healing Collective and the ways we companion survivors and spiritual leaders. My hope is that this research will contribute to a greater movement of healing the wounds caused by Christendom so the inclusive healing beauty of the gospel can be experienced by many.