With so much focus in America on health care and health care reform, a new book by Beth Bosserman, Medicine from God: Scripture Verses to Encourage and Comfort the Sick (Pleasant Word, 2010), takes a pastoral care angle by offering a treasury of Bible verses offering strength, encouragement, comfort, and inspiration for those who are ill and for those who minister to the ill.
In the midst of debate, contention, and controversy over the legislation and implementation of new health care models, this book is a rather different and important Christian spiritual angle to address the needs of the sick. This is a side not covered very much in the media and so I'm glad to see it's being addressed in this way.
For more, read the entire story here at RNS.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Institute of Conflict Management holds ecumenical Reconciler's Summit to teach clergy how to diffuse conflict
"NASHVILLE (July 29, 2009) -- Faith leaders from across the Christian theological spectrum gathered at Lipscomb University's Institute for Conflict Management in Nashville, Tenn., this week to learn professional techniques necessary to tackle a challenge common to all faith traditions: conflict."
Conflict management is an integral part of pastoral care duties, so this program will support and further ministerial leadership. The more programs such like this that are enacted by faith communities the better people will be able to deal with disputes, disagreements, and anger. Programs like this serve to bring people together in reconciliation and reunion rather than live with resentment and division. I would even suggest putting into place a center or institute such as this that focuses distinctly on interfaith conflict resolution from a multi-faith perspective.
Lipscomb University's Institute for Conflict Management (ICM) is the Mid-South region's foremost authority and purveyor of academic and business specific resources to equip students, organizations and professionals with skills to minimize the costs of unresolved conflict.
Learn more about this at the Religion News Service.
Conflict management is an integral part of pastoral care duties, so this program will support and further ministerial leadership. The more programs such like this that are enacted by faith communities the better people will be able to deal with disputes, disagreements, and anger. Programs like this serve to bring people together in reconciliation and reunion rather than live with resentment and division. I would even suggest putting into place a center or institute such as this that focuses distinctly on interfaith conflict resolution from a multi-faith perspective.
Lipscomb University's Institute for Conflict Management (ICM) is the Mid-South region's foremost authority and purveyor of academic and business specific resources to equip students, organizations and professionals with skills to minimize the costs of unresolved conflict.
Learn more about this at the Religion News Service.
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