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Bipolar Disorder

Jesus Wept by Karl Shallowhorn

March 7, 2022 by Kirk Moore

“Jesus wept” John 11:35 What is known as the shortest verse in the Bible is also the most profound. This simple sentence says so much about Jesus’ identification of being “in the flesh.” When I think about this verse, I am drawn to the questions about Christ’s boundless empathy for others. If there was someone […]

Filed Under: Bipolar Disorder, Church, Community, Hope, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

Resurrection by Rev. Megan Snell

March 22, 2021 by Kirk Moore

Church done well can be a community of support and hope. Church can provide people with a sense of inclusion, identity and purpose. Church can be a place of resurrection. In my own ministry and preaching, I endeavor to remind people who they are (created, known, beloved), whose they are (God’s), and what they are […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Bipolar Disorder, Church, clergy, Easter, Gratitude, Lent, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

A Christmas of Promise by Karl Shallowhorn

December 21, 2020 by Kirk Moore

It was December 25, 1981. I was a mere 19 years old and I was already in my second psychiatric hospitalization of the year, the first being in the previous February through March. As with the first stay, I was in the Buffalo General Hospital Community Mental Health Center. I had experienced another psychotic episode […]

Filed Under: Advent & Christmas, Bipolar Disorder, Holidays, Hope, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

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