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June 2016

June 29, 2016

Curing the Hungry, Feeding the Sick: Caring For Your Mentally Ill Friends, Part II

Let us imagine a feast. And let us imagine someone too mentally ill to...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Healing Prayer as Penance

“Spend 10 or 15 minutes praying for healing.” It doesn’t sound much like penance. Unless...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

Teach Us To Pray…But Be Gentle: Prayer and Mental Illness

So, God said to Job, everything’s over and you need to pray for your friends...

April 11, 2016

Why I Need Contemplative Spirituality

In his eminently affable and uncontroversial way, theologian Stanley Hauerwas once suggested he’s a...

February 2016

February 16, 2016

Reaching Out Amidst OCD and Depression: Tuesday Lenten Reflection I

I have comorbid depression and obssessive compulsive disorder. I write this, not as a bid...

January 2016

January 18, 2016

Lessons From Brother Ass on a Blue Monday

“Variable and therefore miserable condition of man; this minute, I was well, and am ill,...