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Upside-down medicine
Jim O’Connell’s practice is built not on profit but on giving his patients—the unhoused of Boston—whatever time they need.
Present together
When I was a chaplain intern working with people with disabilities, there was one man I visited every Sunday right after worship.
What I pray when I can’t say thanks or help
A prayer of bare-bones presence with God
by Debie Thomas
Episode 1: Historian Diana Butler Bass, author of Freeing Jesus
A conversation with historian and popular author Diana Butler Bass about her upbringing, Jesus as presence, memoir theology, and more