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Not The Sermon I Meant
to Preach

July 1, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

I’d been asked to guest preach at a large, respectable church in town, the first time I’d received an invite to this congregation, and I didn’t want to mess it up. I’d worked with the lectionary texts, rich in narrative and imagery – Elijah in the wilderness, the man possessed by Legion – and thought […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Stigma Tagged With: Anxiety, chaplain, College, David Finnegan-Hosey, Elijah, mental health, mental health struggles, preach, pulpit, sermon, Stigma

A Witness to Recovery

June 24, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

As rubber duckies go, the one in the above photograph is not very impressive. It’s undersized and, when floating in the bath tub, it has a pronounced list to the left. I’m not even sure of its provenance. I assume it belonged to one of our children, maybe passed down from one to the other, […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Recovery Tagged With: 2 Corinthians 5:17, Bob Griggs, experience, joy, mental health crisis, purpose, recovery, rubber duckies, vitality, witness

Down the Rabbit Hole

June 17, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

The story begins with a bored and drowsy seven-year-old girl named Alice sitting on a riverbank with her older sister.  When a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch runs past, Alice follows it down a rabbit hole. As she falls a long way down, Alice finds herself in a curious hall with many locked doors of […]

Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: Alice in wonderland, Caregiver support, literary, loved ones, Mental Health Network, mental illness, respect, schizophrenia, Tim Ahrens, UCC, United Church of Christ

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