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The Healing Words of God
We take refuge in the healing words of God when, with intentionality, we practice the sabbath. Sabbath, more broadly, can include sabbath from community. Including church. It’s what I’m doing for the next couple weeks. One of my friends practices sabbath Sundays by merely drinking coffee outside rather than at the kitchen table. For me,…
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Thinking about diet and ill health
Diet and ill health. Everything these days depends on recognizing the connection between diet and ill health–and there is a lot of ill health these days. The medical and mental health industries are trying to solve problems that we will prevent in the future. I have hope that we can, over time, focus on what…
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Psychiatry is important but not always wise
I just want to share that psychiatry is important but not always wise. I have had wise psychiatrists, who had an amazing bedside manner, and who prescribed the wrong medications. In one instance, this led to my involuntary hospitalization. Seriously. I was put on 200 mg of an antidepressant and my husband was instructed to…
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Finding Adequate Lenses for Bible Study
We must find adequate lenses for Bible study, but this is very, very difficult. Further, it would be a mistake to think that everyone should have the same lens(es). That we think there is one lens for all is mainly because of the reductive ways we approach the task of interpretation in the West. Particularly…
