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Caring for Your Pastor’s Mental Health
October is Pastor Appreciation Month. It is a time when many people will find a way to show their appreciation to their pastor. One of the most important things we can do to value and appreciate our pastors is to understand that many are hurting.
Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry – October 16, 2023
Depression rates among teens rose sharply during COVID – and the majority of teens with depression received no treatment.
Do not FRET!?
Oswald Chambers said, “It’s easy to say, ‘Fret not,’ but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret.” In today’s post, Cindi identifies the key that makes a life without fretting possible, even for families with disabilities and special needs.
A Chat with Joan Borton on MarriageAbility: Podcast Episode 071
In this week’s episode, Beth Golik sits down with Joan Borton, author of MarriageAbility, a new book that engages the reality disability puts on the marriage relationship, through the real-life, and often humorous, stories of couples living with disability.
Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry – October 10, 2023
Romantic chatbots are being developed offering suggestive selfies, sexually explicit (and apparently, realistic) conversations, and the ability to design a virtual girlfriend’s personality who is judgment-free, encourages users to spend more time with male friends and laughs at all of your jokes. What will the impact be on our ability to engage in authentic relationships that potentially lead to marriage? Or the impacts upon self-image for those unable to live up to the images in brains scarred by pornography?
Ten Books for Disability Ministry Leaders: Podcast Episode 70
Fall is a great time to read a good book! In this episode, Sandra shares 10 books for disability ministry leaders in the areas of family care, theology of disability, and ways to strengthen your inclusion practices!
Call for Speakers for Disability and the Church 2024
The opportunity to apply to speak is open to any and all mature Christians with important or innovative thoughts or ideas to help grow or advance the disability ministry movement. We encourage leaders doing important work in relative obscurity lacking the connections or platforms to make their work better known throughout the church to apply.
Five Truths of Disability Theology: Podcast Episode 069
Knowing and understanding what the Bible says about disability is pivotal as we strive to be better equipped for the lifelong journey with our friends and families in the disability community. In this week’s episode, Garett discusses the topic of disability theology while focusing on a few verses from Scripture that have been helpful for him and his family.
Things I Want My Child’s Therapists to Know About Families Raising Kids with Disabilities
In a recent viral social media post, Rachel Olstad expressed what she and many other families with children with disabilities would like to express to those who help care for their children.
Caregivers Can Do Hard Things
In the nearly sixty-seven years my mother and I shared on this earth, she taught me many lessons. The one I leaned on the most as our time to say good-bye drew near was this one: caregivers can do hard things.