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Episode 25: Church leader Graham Joseph Hill, co-author of Healing Our Broken Humanity
A conversation with professor and church leader Graham Joseph Hill about reconciliation, lament, hospitality, and more
Aurelia Dávila Pratt’s paths to healing
Her powerful debut resonates deeply with my lifelong labor to honor my name and my voice.
There is nothing wrong with the nine. There is something extraordinary about the one.
by Diane Roth
For Luke, sickness is the devil’s work, which Jesus came to combat.
Climate change is a symptom of deeper planetary dysfunction
Five ideas for treating the greater disease
Two years after my husband survived the Tree of Life shooting, I’m still figuring out how to tell the story
How do you construct a narrative in the aftermath of communal trauma?
When hope gives up on magical results
Since my son’s accident, everything I understand about hope has changed.
by Debie Thomas
Hearing the apostle Paul’s words in a hospital stroke unit
Struck down but not destroyed, perplexed but not forsaken
Why did I go to a charismatic worship service in an arena?
I feared it would last a week. Then came the moment of truth.
by Samuel Wells
Pragmatic guidance for the task of healing the world
Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill challenge churches to embrace nine practices of active faith.
November 5, All Saints A (Matthew 5:1-12)
Poverty of spirit, like any kind of poverty, is unenviable but survivable.
The difference between sickness and health depends on the strength of the love at work. It wasn't until I met Mark that I began to understand this.
In this week’s Gospel reading, Jesus heals many sick people and casts out many demons. I’ve been thinking about healing a lot lately.
It appears that my friend Steve Hayner doesn't have long to live. It is breathtaking to watch him prepare to die as he lived.
Eric Cassell reminds us that people experience sickness in profoundly individual ways. Physicians should learn to heal patients even when they cannot cure their diseases.
reviewed by Aaron Klink
Thistle Farms is a social enterprise to create handmade products as good for the earth as for the body. They work with the community and graduates of Magdalene, a residential program of women who have survived sex work, trafficking and addiction.
Sick people long to be touched—the very thing loved ones tend to avoid. In today's mechanized medicine, doctors keep their distance as well.
The general was insulted by the piddling, muddy Jordan. But he entered the water—and was healed! Then it was time to pay the bill.