Will Rose-Moore

For Nothing is Hidden: Masculinities and Trauma in Church and Theology (2026)

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In a church and a world both riven with scandals of abuse and violence, often committed by men, there is an urgent need to delve deeper into the topics of masculinities and trauma that define them. Both critical theologies of masculinities and trauma theologies have a shared aim to reveal that which is hidden, to name and bring to light those things that are so often concealed. This collection seeks to uncover an intersection between the two: how masculinities and trauma intersect and influence each other in research, stories, and experiences of church and theology.

Spanning colonialism and ecology through eucharistic theology and models of ministry, For Nothing is Hidden draws together voices from a variety of disciplines and experiences to offer research and reflections, with chapters from Karen O’Donnell, Katie Cross, Andrew Graystone, Carlton Turner and Isabelle Hamley, plus a foreword from the Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley. If the church begins to take seriously the ways in which masculinities are produced and shaped, and how trauma can be experienced and understood, then there is an opportunity to offer a helpful contribution to the church’s contemporary conversations concerning abuse, safeguarding, and violence, with specific attention to gender.

This book will be published with SCM Press in Summer 2026. All royalties will be donated to Beyond Equality, a UK charity faciliating worskhops to engage men and boys in transforming masculinities and promoting gender equality.

Contributors

Foreword by Helen-Ann Hartley. Chapters by Karen O’Donnell, Katie Cross, Will Rose-Moore, Andrew Graystone, Charlie Bączyk-Bell, David Tombs, Isabelle Hamley, Alexiana Fry, Andrew Boakye, Kendrick Kemp, Benjamin Schweitzer, Tim Judson, Carlton Turner, Anupama Ranawana, Melissa Dickinson, Tim Middleton, Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones, Ian Henderson, Al Barrett, and Simon Sutcliffe. Poetry by Jay Hulme, Aysha Taha, Jarel Robinson-Brown, Georgia Day, Brandon Fletcher-James, Tyrone Davis Jr., Will Rose-Moore, and Ian Henderson. Afterword by Pamela Lightsey.

Editor

Will Rose-Moore is a priest and theologian. He is currently serving as Assistant Curate at St John the Baptist, Loughton in the Diocese of Chelmsford. He is studying for a PhD in Theology with Westcott House in the Cambridge Theological Federation. Will is the author of Boys Will Be Boys, and Other Myths (SCM Press, 2022).

Table of Contents

Foreword
Helen-Ann Hartley

Part One: Introduction and Approach

  • Introduction: Paying Attention to Masculinities and Trauma
    Will Rose-Moore
  • To Be a Man
    Jay Hulme
  • Moving From Feminist Trauma Theologies to Masculinities
    Karen O’Donnell, Katie Cross, and Will Rose-Moore
  • Human Kind
    Aysha Taha

Part Two: The Abuse and Traumatisation of Men and Masculinities

  • ‘I am your father in God’: Narratives of Fatherhood in Conservative Evangelical Mechanisms of Coercive Control
    Andrew Graystone
  • Ecclesiam
    Jarel Robinson-Brown
  • But how could you do such a thing – and enjoy it? Queering masculinities in a traumatising church
    Charlie Bączyk-Bell
  • Going Under the Yoke: Punitive Stripping and Disgraced Masculinity
    David Tombs

Part Three: Masculinities and Trauma Through The Lens of Scripture

  • ‘Bring out the men’: repressed trauma and the threat to masculinity in Genesis 19 and Judges 19
    Isabelle Hamley
  • Hurt People Hurting People: Ezekiel, Masculinities, and Perpetrator Trauma
    Alexiana Fry
  • The Mark of Cain
    Georgia Day
  • Top Boy: Honour, Shame and Violence in the Biblical Manosphere
    Andrew Boakye

Part Four: How Masculinities and Trauma are Racialised

  • Broken Masculinity: Deconstructing the Hegemon Through Race and Disability
    Kendrick A. Kemp and Benjamin R. Schweitzer
  • Traumatising Whiteness: A Gethsemanian Re-Imagining of White Masculinity
    Tim Judson
  • Akeldama
    Georgia Day
  • On Colonial Trauma and White Men’s Christian Mission: Is There an Alternative?
    Carlton Turner
  • Colonial Amnesia
    Brandon Fletcher-James  
  • Mission, Silence and Nationalism: A Case study from Sri Lanka
    Anupama Ranawana

Part Five: Witnessing and Responding to Masculinities and Trauma

  • Trauma and the ecotheological problems of the ‘Manthropocene’
    Melissa Dickinson and Timothy A. Middleton
  • I am suspicious of people who don’t take Beauty seriously.
    Tyrone Davis, Jr.
  • Thinking Gender through Eucharistic Complicity: A Trans Feminist Account of Masculinity and Trauma
    Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones
  • Broken Bodies Breaking Bodies
    Will Rose-Moore
  • Called to Vulnerability: Undoing, Abiding, and Remaining as a Minister
    Ian Henderson
  • A Prayer at the Edge of Undoing
    Ian Henderson
  • Trauma, de/composing masculinities and ensoiled christologies (or, how men might start to face their shit)
    Al Barrett and Simon Sutcliffe

Afterword
Pamela R. Lightsey