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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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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Carol Pine Carol Pine is a person in long-term recovery from alcoholism. She is the co-founder of the Interfaith Addiction and Recovery Coalition based in Savannah, GA., past chair of the Hazelden/Betty Ford Board, current Faith Partners Board member, and co-creator of a Faith Partners Team at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul,
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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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The pandemic has changed everything! The last 18 months or so has been a challenge for most everyone, but with challenge comes opportunity. I have rested in the words of Paul from Romans 8:28, “And we know all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to
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Rev. Alexander E. Sharp, Executive Director, Clergy for a New Drug Policy If asked to name the American thinkers of the past 150 years whom I most admire, I would place the great pragmatic philosopher William James at the very top of the list. Starting as a professor of physiology at Harvard in 1873, James
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Excerpt from St. Peter Catholic Church, Lincoln, NE “Imagine people in your congregation being as comfortable bringing casseroles to a family whose mother is in alcohol or drug treatment as one who is hospitalized for cancer.” This hope, expressed by Rev. Otto Schultz in the brochure for the Nebraska Faith Partners, gets right to the
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One of the projects that I got involved with in early Faith Partners ministry had to do with the incarcerated population. It seems as though I was confronted after church one Sunday, out in the parking lot, by the two parents of a young man who was sentenced to a year in county lock up
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