Dr KATIE CROSS

Biography

I currently hold the post of Christ’s College Lecturer in Practical Theology. My work and teaching is centred around theologies of trauma, suffering, and division. My first book was a theological engagement with the Sunday Assembly, a "godless congregation," and I have also co-edited two volumes on trauma theology (Feminist Trauma Theologies and Bearing Witness, both with SCM Press). 

My current research explores the beliefs, practices, and traumas of Christians who have left the church. I am an active qualitative researcher and I regularly share my research in public forums.

External Memberships

• Editorial board, Practical Theology Journal
  
• Editorial board, Theology in Scotland Journal
• Editorial board, "Studies in Trauma Theology" book series (SCM Press)
• Associate editor, Practical Theology Hub
• Visiting lecturer and dissertation supervisor, Sarum College
• D.Min instructor, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary/University of Edinburgh
• External examiner, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Newbold College 

Research Overview

• Trauma theology
• Theology and disaster
• Religious responses to tragic events and crises
• Theodicy and the problem of evil
• Secularisation
• Atheism and unbelief
• Non-religious spirituality
• Church-leaving 
• Qualitative research and methodologies