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Ridgeway Addison: What's the role of a theologian in a nursing school?
Theological education is invaluable to those who suffer and care for the suffering, says a professor of theology who teaches nursing students.
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Excerpt: 'Glimpsing Resurrection: Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry'
How do you go on when you are undone by cancer? In her new book, cancer survivor and theologian Deanna Thompson combines personal stories and trauma research to offer insight into the challenge of living with serious illness.
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Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell and Jason Byassee: What's the good news about clergy health?
A new book about an extensive study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina explores clergy struggles with physical and mental health. But it also explores positive findings, especially in the area of positive mental health.
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Excerpt: "Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved"
In the first chapter of her new book, Kate Bowler writes about confronting death in the first hours after her diagnosis with stage 4 colon cancer.
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Allison Backous Troy: Praying the Jesus Prayer showed me Christ
In the midst of a painful health crisis, a simple prayer revealed God’s presence not only in the midst of the writer’s own suffering, but also in the suffering of others.
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Laura Everett: Riding my bicycle is a spiritual discipline
Biking is much more than just a way to get around, says the executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. In her new book, “Holy Spokes,” she writes about the way that urban cycling has led to an urban spirituality as well.
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Cricket Cooper: The midweek healing service
It was one thing to lead the Wednesday healing service, quite another to do so while undergoing treatment for cancer, when her own illness was on full display, an Episcopal priest writes in this excerpt from her new book.
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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Will this work make me sick?
Our discernment processes don’t often consider the physical sustainability of our work, but Christian leaders have a theological obligation to explore this question, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Deanna Thompson: I thought digital presence was a poor substitute for embodied presence. Then I got cancer.
Her experience with serious illness convinced a theologian that the virtual body of Christ can make a real difference in a hurting world.
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Melissa Musick Nussbaum: Head rags, throat swabs and an epidemic of loneliness
Coming from an era of deep family ties and mutual obligations of care, the writer’s Aunt Marge and Mother Curry could have told the Synod on the Family the cure for an epidemic of loneliness among us: we are to bear one another’s burdens.