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Understanding wellness and mental health among pastors in 2024
Research reveals positive trends but several complexities that contribute to a sense of clergy well-being.
Link to author Shari Finnell
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Shari Finnell
Journalist
An award-winning podcast explores how pervasive and destructive conversion therapy can be
In “Dear Alana,” podcaster Simon Kent Fung tells the story of Alana Chen, a faithful young woman who died by suicide after experiencing conversion therapy in her teens.
Holding joy and sorrow together
At a time when the world seems laden with sorrow, a writer who lives with depression finds that joy is still possible — and is a kind of resurrection.
Link to author Jean Neely
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Jean Neely
Scholar and writer
The well of joy
We cannot deny the world’s suffering, but building up our sources of joy can help sustain us in work for justice, writes a clinical psychologist.
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Jessica Young Brown
Licensed clinical psychologist
When friends become family
Beyond friends, more than community, they will know us by our love for one another. A writer reflects on the bonds that bring people together, whether in youth groups, hospital rooms or birthday parties.
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Shannon Hopkins
Co-founder & lead cultivator, RootedGood
Kevin Hood Gary: Bored? Don’t avoid that feeling. Engage it
Most people respond to boredom by either avoiding it — hello, smartphone! — or resigning themselves to it. But what if we dealt with boredom by transforming it into a different state of mind?
Sharing good news about our ministries makes a difference
Ministries of kindness and positive actions are uplifting — and so are the stories we tell about them, says a communications specialist at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Emily Lund
Director of Communications, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Hurting and healing: What my church did after a mass shooting
After the recent tragedy at Michigan State University, a nearby congregation moved quickly and strategically to contact faculty, staff and students, provide comfort dogs to the grieving, and gather and pray, writes the pastor.
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A. Trevor Sutton
Pastor and writer
Why leaders need holy friendships
Personal sustainability requires sacred relationships formed in God’s love. A managing director of grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity writes about what makes these friendships vital in this adapted excerpt from her new book.
Link to author Victoria Atkinson White
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Victoria Atkinson White
Director of Grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Lent is a time to rest in God’s unrelenting love
Language that stresses humanity’s distance from God can be deeply hurtful. I prefer to dwell on our belovedness and God’s unwavering maternal heart, writes an author.
Link to author Jean Neely
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Jean Neely
Scholar and writer
