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Living in return
The first time I returned to faith was on a balcony in my medical school. I’ve returned a few more times since. This is what that’s been like.
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The church’s fear of losing power
Shortly after the US elections, I posted on a WhatsApp group I’m on that I feel sorry for any Christian who hasn’t seriously interrogated their faith in the last few years.
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“Love your neighbour” doesn’t mean what we think
“Love your neighbour as yourself” doesn't mean you can't love yourself until you love your neighbour. Here's what it's really about…
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Can you bring faith to work?
Can we really keep faith and work separate? It’s a question any person of faith has to deal with. I had to face just this question with a recent patient. Like a lot of patients who show up in the emergency room for psychiatric assessment, what she was experiencing
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Mind your body
Mind your body: how did mind and body come to be split in our minds?
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Let us lament
The world has always felt broken, if you’ve been paying attention, but this year feels particularly so. And in the midst of it all, I’ve come to find a deeper appreciation of lament. Join me.
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Therapists are the new priests
Some say we all need therapy—but do we?
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Two kinds of strength
What do we mean when we say people are “strong”? What are we really saying?
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Who is my neighbour?
Wanting to justify himself, he asked, “Who is my neighbour?” Luke 10:29 (paraphrased) This was the lukewarm response to perhaps the most profound words ever uttered. But, let’s be honest, it’s a response we’re all familiar with, isn’t it? Few of us, if any, have
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Can we all just admit life gets tiresome?
A meditation on living with existential dread Death doesn’t make me as anxious as life—and living—does. And I know I can’t be the only one. Right? Right? I don’t know for sure if that’s something everyone feels. Like, I’m sure there are those
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SMS
A Christmas poem A word spoken lays down its life by taking on flesh of black text on white page to await the attentive reader in whose mind the letter, springing to new life, may become spirit. The Word became flesh and laid down his life in birth giving life
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I’m Christian and I don’t believe mental illness is “spiritual”
(Except we can agree malaria and measles are, too.) On October 30, 2016, a prominent and otherwise widely respected Nigerian pastor tweeted: “The root cause of mental illness is Sin (Rom 6:23) and the foundational solution to mental health is Salvation.” Let’s just say the tweet ended up