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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

More Than Tolerance

May 27, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

I grew up in a small town in North East San Diego county, in Southern California. I went to the neighborhood elementary school. Each day my fellow classmates and I would line up with our square plastic lunch boxes. Mine typically featured some Ninja Turtle imagery on the sides. We would march down to the […]

Filed Under: Community, Love, Stigma Tagged With: affirmation, Mental Health Network, respect, Stigma, tolerance, UCC, United Church of Christ

#highlowmum

May 6, 2019 by mhn-ucc Leave a Comment

Did you know that last week was Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week? I knew that May is Mental Health Month, and that we at the UCC Mental Health Network are encouraging congregations to recognize Mental Health Sunday.  But one of the blessings for me of social media has been learning about Maternal Mental Health Awareness […]

Filed Under: Postpartum, Stigma Tagged With: #highlowmum, Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health Network, postpartum depression, Stigma, UCC, United Church of Christ

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