Matthias Roberts

2 months ago | jimpalmerauthor.substack.com | Matthias Roberts |Jamie Finch |Hillary L McBride |Jim Palmer

It’s Week One of 2025. Only 51 weeks left to go to 2026! I wrote my annual “This-is-NOT-A-Year-End-Post”.This year’s edition is titled: Un-advice, Un-lessons, Un-resolutions and Un-goals for 2025. Deconstructionology with Jim Palmer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Oct 29, 2023 | audiobooks.com | Matthias Roberts

In the past decade, church attendance among US adults has decreased by more than 25 percent. Americans report leaving religious communities because of the institutions' hypocrisy and resistance to change or because of trauma they have experienced in those spaces. Instead of safe havens for people of faith, many churches have become sites of harm-places people feel the need to escape at all costs.

Oct 2, 2023 | thebiblefornormalpeople.com | Pete Enns |Matthias Roberts

Matthias Roberts joins Jared and Angela Parker in this episode of Faith for Normal People to talk about his work as a psychotherapist, the path to healing from religious trauma, and what faith after religious trauma might look like. Join them as they explore the following questions:How did Matthias get interested in psychology? What forms can religious trauma take? How do experts define religious trauma? How can people identify if they’ve experienced religious trauma?

Sep 26, 2023 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Matthias Roberts

“My faith now tells me that breeze is the breath of a God who looks nothing like what I thought God should look like. This God doesn’t recognize 'in' groups and 'out' groups and doesn’t help buttress walls between people. This God invites us to take apart the ways we define and prove our worthiness. “This God, as Jesus told us, is love. “Perhaps it’s the warm breath of God that makes us worthy.

Sep 26, 2023 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Matthias Roberts

This book is designed for Christians who have left their churches behind, disappointed in their religious leaders and their institutions. Author Matthias Roberts is one of them — having grown up in a rigid form of Christianity (including homeschool and a Christian college) and left it behind. His analysis is informed by his training as a psychotherapist who's an expert in trauma and recovery.