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Affliction: Mental Illness and the Absence of God

WebMental Illness as Affliction. I am sitting on green grass. My body is relaxed; my legs are firm; my arms comfortably bent; my head moves slightly as it follows lines of text.

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Healing a Divided Life: A Spiritual and Physical Story of …

WebI don’t know what percentage, but a pretty large portion of my brain is dead scar tissue. The fact that I can function as well as I do, and drive, and do all the things that I do is completely a credit to just the amazing power that God has put in the brain to compensate for areas that are damaged or injured in any way.

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Please, God, Make It Stop: Headaches, Acute Pain, and …

WebI shouldn’t talk about this. Any expression of liberation from pain threatens to sound less like gratitude than complacency. Once you’ve suffered and the suffering seems to end, your safest course is to stay quiet and remember that it …

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Suffering & the Good Life

WebChristian wisdom for life's big questions. 2017-2018 Research Theme: Suffering & the Good Life (sponsored by the Templeton Religion Trust)

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The Effects of Forgiveness and Resentment on the Heart

WebR stands for RECALL THE HURT—without blaming the offender or focusing on how much impairment one has suffered due to the offense. Rather, recall the hurt in a way that will allow EMOTIONAL REPLACEMENT—that’s the E.

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Groans Too Deep: The Holy Spirit and Suffering

WebChristian wisdom for life's big questions. Suffering, it seems, is an inevitable part of human life. Failure, loss of a loved one, social ostracism, trauma, mental or physical illness, relational alienation, addiction, a sense of God’s absence—at some point in our lives, all of us are touched by such experiences.

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How Mindfulness Treats OCD

WebResearch Psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz (UCLA) explains how mindfulness practices effectively treat obsessive-compulsive disorder. Transcript: We discovered at UCLA, in the ’80s, That there’s a part of the brain called the Orbitofrontal Cortex, which sits right over the eye sockets, that is overactive in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Mindful Breathing Exercises: Getting Mentally Fit

WebChristian wisdom for life's big questions. Research Psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz (UCLA) offers guided instruction in a breathing exercise that introduces mindful meditation, commenting on the significance of each step.

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Making Sense of Suffering: The Psychology of Post …

WebHow are we to make sense of suffering in this world? Are despair and ill-being the only outcomes we can expect following tragedy and trauma? Or can enduring significant failure and adversity change your character in truly meaningful ways?

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Spiritual Care After Violence: Growing from Trauma with Lived …

WebPastoral care in the aftermath of violence became part of my vocation as a Presbyterian minister in the late 1970s. This was a time when women were beginning to talk openly about sexual violence.

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Heartbrokenness and the Problem of Suffering: The Story of Mary …

WebChristian wisdom for life's big questions. Mary of Bethany is an exemplar of a person who suffers heartbreak, if the New Testament story of the raising of Lazarus—in which she and her sister Martha figure largely—is understood in a certain way.

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Spirituality, Neuroplasticity, and Personal Growth

WebCurt Thompson (M.D.) explores the connection between spirituality, neuroplasticity, and personal growth. Transcript: I think anything that we do, in which we can incorporate things that make logical sense to us, can be used to their advantage to help transform our life.

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Happiness in the Christian Life

WebChristian wisdom for life's big questions. Ellen Charry (Professor of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary) diagnoses the Christian aversion to “happiness” and suggests an approach to thinking about happiness that is consistent with Scripture and represented in ancient Christian thought.

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Rewiring the Brain

WebPhilosopher Kevin Corcoran discusses rewiring the brain for happiness, presenting ideas from contemporary neuroscience and ancient virtue ethics.

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10 Theological Ideas for Better Counseling

WebWhat comes to mind when you think of theology? Unless you work for a seminary (like I do) or you are wired for philosophical contemplation (which I definitely am not), then the image that you may associate with theology is that of a middle-aged man in a jacket with patches on his elbows, probably smoking a pipe, and thinking esoteric theological thoughts for …

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Can I Get A Witness: Our Pain and God's Presence

WebIn our brief time together we will consider the practice of bearing witness which allows us to be honest about genuine suffering.

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The Benefits of Love: Is Love a Many Splendored Thing or an …

WebChristian wisdom for life's big questions. “…Any love, respect, or admiration a man may feel for others is not and cannot be a source of his own enjoyment, but is a threat to his existence, a sacrificial blank check signed over to his loved ones.” 1 Ayn Rand’s skeptical perspective warns against an others-centered love. To such cynics love is dangerous, …

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Doing Good Better: Active Contemplation in Christian Spirituality

WebThe Table: A recent Gravity Center email suggested, “Our society is desperate for the contemplative.” Why do you think that is? What cultural signs do you observe that make that true? Chris Heuertz: When we talk about the contemplative, what we’re talking about is a tradition and spirituality marked by practices that give themselves to solitude, silence, …

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Evidence of Spiritual Formation in Virtuous Character

WebPsychologist Everett Worthington (Virginia Commonwealth University) presents findings from positive psychology on how spiritual formation occurs.

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Surviving Death: What Happens When We Die

WebRichard Swinburne (Oxford University) and Tim O’Connor (Baylor University) discuss their views on what might happens to us when we die—both in the case that we’re just material beings, and in the case that we have (or are) a soul.

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Porn, Neuroscience, and Spirituality: An Interview with William

WebEvan: What are the tools that the neuropsychologist gets to use from within neuroscience to treat addiction?. Dr. Struthers: It’s interesting because, if you think about the different tools that a neuroscientist would use versus the tools that a psychologist would use, a neuroscientist would probably want to say, “Well, we don’t really have much to offer you …

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