<p><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">After twenty years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a global pandemic, protests against racial violence, and frequent shootings, more Americans than ever are living with the effects of trauma.</strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">&nbsp;The good news is that Jesus was born and died in a traumatized world, and his story speaks forever to wounded people worldwide. Army veteran and Episcopal priest David Peters explores Jesus' life story through the post-traumatic lens with which the Gospel writers first wrote it-as people who had seen their leader executed by the same oppressive government that had already shrouded their whole lives in anxiety and fear. Meeting the post-traumatic Jesus-the only Jesus the world has ever known-can be a balm to the wounds of modern Christians and spiritual seekers.</span></p>