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Do Not Be Afraid

August 12, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

Do not be afraid! The expression is becoming mainstream in the Latinx community. Generation after generation we have been attacked, most recently for being queer and Latinx in Orlando at Pulse Night Club. Now we are being gunned down in our neighborhood Wal-Mart. We are even gunned down in community festivals where we partake as […]

Filed Under: Immigration, Support Tagged With: Anxiety, immigrant children, Jon Gilbert Martinez, Latina, Latino, Latinx, Mental Health Network, mental health struggles, sacred, sadness, terrorism, UCC, United Church of Christ

Not The Sermon I Meant
to Preach

July 1, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

I’d been asked to guest preach at a large, respectable church in town, the first time I’d received an invite to this congregation, and I didn’t want to mess it up. I’d worked with the lectionary texts, rich in narrative and imagery – Elijah in the wilderness, the man possessed by Legion – and thought […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Stigma Tagged With: Anxiety, chaplain, College, David Finnegan-Hosey, Elijah, mental health, mental health struggles, preach, pulpit, sermon, Stigma

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