Writer. Public Intellectual. Faith Leader.
The Rev. Dr. Danielle Tumminio Hansen is a writer, public theologian, Episcopal priest, and former chaplain whose research tackles theology, trauma, and contemporary culture. A professor at Emory University, she is the author of numerous books, and her essays have been featured in outlets including CNN, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Known internationally for her research and writing, she has earned a reputation for taking on life's toughest and most tender experiences with grace, acumen, and depth of wisdom.
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Around the Fireplace is a gathering place for honest reflections on spirituality, trauma recovery, and the good life. This Substack explores what it means to live with curiosity, courage, and compassion—especially when life burns hot. Through stories that blend scholarship, faith, and the deeply personal, Danielle invites readers to sit by the fire, tend to the ashes, and find warmth in the questions that make us most human.
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What happens to our spirit after something traumatic happens to us? Danielle Tumminio Hansen’s Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care answers that question with rare clarity, offering caregivers a simple, step-by-step path to help people heal—body, mind, and soul. Grounded in research from psychologists and theologians alike, it's been praised as a searingly honest, deeply hopeful resource and has become a bedrock text for the next generation of folks training to be pastors and chaplains.
Danielle Tumminio Hansen steps into the space of the unspeakable, weaving together first-person narrative, feminist discourse, and theology to understand why it’s so hard to talk about sexual violations and how to create opportunities for healing and justice.
In Conceiving Family, Danielle Tumminio Hansen offers a cutting edge interdisciplinary, international, intersectional analysis of what it means to be a family and community in the age of assisted reproduction.
Tumminio Hansen reflects upon the experience of teaching the first seminar of its kind on theology and the Harry Potter series at an Ivy League university with reflections on how to understand the books and their relationship to Christianity. At once accessible and insightful, God and Harry Potter at Yale encourages readers to think deeply about the beloved series in a fresh way.
