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While in a church office sorting through a worn cardboard box full of VHS tapes (big, black plastic rectangular boxes with film inside) I stumbled upon an unopened, still sealed in plastic-wrap VHS titled: mental illness and the church. The creators of this resource were decades ahead of their time (so much so, that theContinue reading “Bipolar Hallelujah”

Before the baby was born, prayers were whispered into the night that this new life would enter the world gently, safely, and surrounded by love. This was so. Thank you God. In the early years of baby food, diapers and tantrums, prayers were whispered into the night that the little one would grow to loveContinue reading “A Prayer for Supernatural Power”

The nurse asked me to bring a Bible to the psychiatric ward. It was the summer of my seminary training as a hospital chaplain in Honolulu at Queens Medical Center. I was the on-call chaplain that night. Through a long maze of dimly lit and deserted hospital corridors, I reached what seemed to be aContinue reading “The Devil is in the Diagnosis”