Beyond Words suicide/mental health

suicide/mental health

for clergy

strait-laced Christianity too many of us were spoon-fed in Sunday school

She Flies On is not really a critique of organized religion

In Why Church

Beyond Words suicide/mental healthAuthor Kristen Johnson Ingram was photographing Native American dancers at an Oregon pow wow when an official tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to stop taking pictures. "This is the prayer the dancer is doing," he explained. For people of faith, Ingram realized, there are many forms of prayer besides the ones we speak with our lips: Devout Jews bow while reading Torah; Episcopalians stand, sit, or kneel in church; exuberant Christians raise