Making Friends with Darkness Finding Spiritual Healing After Trauma or Loss

by Hamilton, Nick

• ISBN13: 9798384508007
• ISBN10: 8384508003
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-10-14
• Publisher: B&H Books

Summary

Trauma often disrupts a person’s faith in God. At times, it even causes people to feel as though they have lost their faith in God altogether.

Making Friends with Darkness joins the ongoing conversation about PTSD and moral injury recovery with an approach from the Scriptures, providing a plan that is non-formulaic, helps people heal from their trauma, and helps remove barriers to God.

Nick Hamilton offers a unique walk through the Psalms and other Scriptures with an invitation to wrestle with your questions and to wrestle with God along the way. It is a companion in the deepest and most difficult moments of life. Making Friends with Darkness hopes to “bind up the brokenhearted,” walking with those who experience trauma and loss.

Author Biography

Nick Hamilton served as a chaplain for 25 years, first in the military and after retirement from the Navy, in healthcare. As the Director of Spiritual Care for Baptist Health of Central Alabama, he led a team of 11 chaplains through the COVID-19 pandemic. As a Navy chaplain, he served on an aircraft carrier on 9/11, deployed to Iraq with Marine Corps ground forces and served as the chaplain inside Guantanamo Bay detention facility. He holds a Doctor of Ministry from Gateway Seminary where he has taught courses on crisis ministry and spiritual formation. Nick is a Board-Certified Chaplain (BCC) and a Healthcare Ethics Consultant—Certified (HEC-C). He currently serves as the Director of Ethics at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. Nick and his wife Karen have three children and two grandchildren.