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The Church Laboratory by Megan Snell

January 4, 2021 By Rev. Dr. Ciarán Osborn (he/him)

Church life is like a holy learning laboratory where we endeavor to understand God’s call for us. It’s a lab in which we struggle and experiment and grow to learn how to be in right relationship to ourselves, one another, God, and creation. It’s a space in which we learn how to be true to […]

Filed Under: Church, clergy, Community, Depression, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

Food Insecurity by Lisa LeSueur

December 28, 2020 By Rev. Lisa LeSueur

One day several months ago, when the pandemic was first beginning, I walked out of my house to the corner of my block where flashing police lights called my attention. At the intersection I saw a line of cars of all makes and models, stretching further than my eyes could see. Assuming there had been […]

Filed Under: Church, Food Insecurity, Healthy Living, Hope, Mental Health, Mental Health Network, Trauma, UCC, Uncategorized, United Church of Christ

A Christmas of Promise by Karl Shallowhorn

December 21, 2020 By Karl Shallowhorn

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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