Drew Brooks – Faith Partners Director I was asked by a longtime friend and colleague to write my thoughts about helping clergy develop a “sixth sense” to respond to people experiencing addiction in their families. Or more in their words – how do I find people with problems and get them where they need to […]
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Father Bill Wigmore Fr. Bill Wigmore has served in the addiction treatment field for over 50 years serving as counselor, clinical director and administrator at several nationally recognized treatment centers in the southwest. A New York City native, he received his undergraduate degree in history from the University of Dayton and did post-graduate work at Columbia
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Julie Taylor-Costello Julie works for Lutheran Family Services as the Community Outreach and Training Coordinator for the state of Nebraska. Before coming to work at LFS, I worked for more than 20 years in higher education, in student services and as faculty. I earned my PhD in education from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln
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Richard D. Grant, Jr., Ph.D. Richard D. Grant, Jr,. Ph.D., is a psychologist who had a private practice in Austin, Texas, for over 40 years. With Andrea Miller, he is the author of Recovering Connections, a book which combines recovery, Christianity, and Jungian psychology. He is very interested in The Twelve Steps corresponding to Biblical
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Richard D. Grant, Jr., Ph.D. Richard D. Grant, Jr,. Ph.D., is a psychologist who had a private practice in Austin, Texas, for over 40 years. With Andrea Miller, he is the author of Recovering Connections, a book which combines recovery, Christianity, and Jungian psychology. He is very interested in The Twelve Steps corresponding to Biblical
Rev. Dr. Ed Treat Rev. Dr. Ed Treat has a Master of Divinity and a Doctorate in Ministry from Luther Seminary and has been a parish pastor for 25 years. He has served four different congregations, including one he started as a mission developer. In 1990 he joined the newly formed Fellowship of Recovering Lutheran
Rick Drewien A Sacred Tapestry Marietta, Georgia “Spirituality has to do with the reality of the here and now, with living humanly as one is, with the very real, very agonizing, “passions of the soul.” Spirituality involves learning how to live with imperfection.” – Ernest Kurtz The other night, I called a friend in the
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Drew Brooks – Faith Partners Director It was 1988, I remember it as if it were yesterday – I had given my testimony in a worship service of the church I had attended since childhood. It was a daunting task to offer my personal story to what seemed like a sea of stoic faces with
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Drew Brooks – Faith Partners Director “We teach best what we most need to learn” – Richard Bach, Author of “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” Transitioning out of the pandemic has been at the forefront of many people’s minds, especially the faith community. We are trying to figure out what the “new normal”
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Rev. Molly Doreza The Rev. Molly Doreza is an ordained Lutheran minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and Chair of The Healing Network. She is currently serving as Interim Pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, WI. Early, on a rainy summer morning, I got a call no mother should ever receive.
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