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‘We’ve Done a Bad Job of Just Telling People to Pray About It’: Mike Todd on What the Church Gets Wrong About Trauma

‘We’ve Done a Bad Job of Just Telling People to Pray About It’: Mike Todd on What the Church Gets Wrong About Trauma

Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Mike Todd’s biggest trauma had nothing to do with tragedy. The pastor of Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, spent years unable to let anything just be good. Good had to become great, and the pressure to keep outperforming himself cost him his joy. “The Mike Todd definition of trauma is simply anything that impacts you…