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“Stranger Things” Has Come to Church By Rev. Dr. Tim Ahrens

October 17, 2022 By Rev. Dr. Tim Ahrens

Beginning on Netflix in July 2016, Stranger Things is a psychological thriller set in the fictional rural town of Hawkins, Indiana, during the 1980s. The nearby Hawkins National Laboratory ostensibly performs scientific research for the United States Department of Energy, but secretly does experiments into the paranormal and supernatural, including those that involve human test subjects – all of whom are […]

Filed Under: clergy, COVID-19, Faith, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, Pandemic, Stress, UCC, United Church of Christ

Isolation by Rev. Dr. Tim Ahrens

June 27, 2022 By Rev. Dr. Tim Ahrens

I am in isolation.  Having tested positive for COVID, I have spent the past eight days isolated in a 14’x 8’ room in my house.  I am doing this to follow CDC protocols and specially to protect my wife from contracting COVID.  Except to cross the by hallway double-masked to go to the bathroom, I […]

Filed Under: Community, COVID-19, Depression, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, Support, UCC, United Church of Christ

Finding Solace by Rev Jennifer Stuart, LICSW

March 28, 2022 By Jennifer Stuart

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes  (E. E. Cummings) I have always found healing in nature. During times of desolation, I find comfort in the enormity […]

Filed Under: Community, COVID-19, Faith, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

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