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Addiction and Theology: Scientific and Wisdom Perspectives

February 17, 2020 By Rev. Jack Abel

Many of us are concerned about addiction, but struggle clinically and theologically to understand the phenomenon. To the family member, employer, or friend, it looks perplexing at best, and is often experienced as hurtful betrayal or outright defiance of a covenanted relationship. Civic society and social institutions have similarly wrestled with conceptualizations of addicted behavior […]

Filed Under: Addiction Tagged With: Addiction, behavior, healing, Mental Health Network, technology, Theology, UCC, United Church of Christ

Healing

July 29, 2019 By Rev. Megan Snell (she/her)

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

Called to Healing

October 22, 2018 By David Finnegan-Hosey

“Jesus stood still and said, ‘Call him here.’ And they called the blind man, saying to him, ‘Take heart; get up, he is calling you.” – Mark 10:49 This coming Sunday’s lectionary texts contain the story of Bartimaeus, one which has taken on a particularly important meaning for me as I have learned to live […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Recovery Tagged With: healing, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ, wholeness

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