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Recovery

Healing

July 29, 2019 By Rev. Dr. Ciarán Osborn (he/him)

When people think of faith and healing, oftentimes images come to mind of charismatic televangelists summoning healing for people on a large stage. Maybe you think of Jesus encountering the man called  Legion in the hills and summoning the unsettling spirits out of him, driving them into swine. No matter what image comes to mind […]

Filed Under: Community, Mental Health, Recovery Tagged With: accompaniment, affirmation, Community, Faith, healing, Love, Megan Snell, mental health, Mental Health Network, mental illness, UCC, United Church of Christ

Loving Depression

July 8, 2019 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

As a social worker and as one who wrote a master’s thesis on mental health in the church, I’ve done a lot of reading and thinking about these topics.  I’ve preached sermons about mental health and healing, I’ve read articles about people who choose not to take medication for their mental health, and I’ve had […]

Filed Under: Depression, Love, Recovery, Stigma Tagged With: depression, doctor, Hannah Campbell Gustafon, happy pill, Love, marriage, medication, mental health, Mental Health Network, new medication, sermon, social worker, Trevor Noah, United Church of Christ

A Witness to Recovery

June 24, 2019 By Bob Griggs

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

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