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Healing our image of God
Our notions of God are inevitably colored by our wounds and constrained by the limits of what we imagine to be possible. It’s so easy to mistake the flood of self-rejecting voices for God’s voice.
Link to author Jean Neely
By Jean Neely
Scholar and writer
Growing beyond rage into hope and collective healing
The tragedies of the world provoke understandable rage. But focusing on existential gratitude and connection creates space for transformation, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Alaina Kleinbeck
By Alaina Kleinbeck
Director, Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program
Francis Collins: Science is ‘a glimpse of God’s mind’
As a community anchored on the principle of truth, the church can play a leading role in guiding us out of the pandemic, says the director of the National Institutes of Health.
The parable of the shopping carts
After 18 months of trying to protect ourselves and others from COVID-19, our frustration with those who reject all measures is real, writes an editor of Faith & Leadership.
Link to author Aleta Payne
By Aleta Payne
Senior associate editor, Faith & Leadership
Women clergy and the pandemic: Weary, but not giving up
In these profiles, four clergywomen share their pandemic stories. Like many American women, they’ve struggled to balance work, home and community in lives upended by the coronavirus.
Link to author Yonat Shimron
By Yonat Shimron
Journalist
What Paul teaches us about coping with trauma
A clinical psychologist, poet and professor reads the letters of Paul through a psychological lens and identifies keys to his resilience and positive religious coping — and how those strategies might help Christians today.
Link to author Luis Cruz-Villalobos
By Luis Cruz-Villalobos
Author and clinical psychologist
Rediscovering rest in all its forms
We live in a culture of exhaustion and sometimes don’t even know what type of rest we need.
Link to author Kerry McLeish
By Kerry McLeish
Spiritual director
LGBTQ+ folks teach us a lot about kinship
Focusing conversations on “welcome” or “inclusion” is not enough; we need to learn from LGBTQ+ people and expand our understanding of community, a queer pastor says.
Link to author Mihee Kim-Kort
By Mihee Kim-Kort
PCUSA minister
Living into joy, late in the pandemic
A walk by a stream prompts a writer and spiritual director to wonder: Could a fresh understanding of joy help restore us?
Link to author Samuel Rahberg
By Samuel Rahberg
Director, Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Direction at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary
'Trauma upon trauma'
The verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial does not undo the accumulated horror people of color continue to absorb, writes an expert on faith and mental health.
Link to author Jessica Young Brown
By Jessica Young Brown
Assistant professor of counseling and practical theology, Virginia Union University
