Why I don’t pray like I use to, Part 1
In a behavioral health unit group can refer to any scheduled meeting with doctors, therapists, chaplains, and even dogs. We patients can’t be bothered with more descriptive titles, so group suffices. I […]
Category Archives: Faith & Mental Health
Job the Patient
If Shir HaShirim is the most problematic book in the Bible, then Job is the most enigmatic. Much of the difficulty in understanding the message of Job is identifying the […]
Palms and Ashes
In position for imposition We three huddled in a cramped room. Men sweating in well-worn albs. Our off-white contrast with the colors of those in casual clothes. Such clothes are […]
Fictitious Cats on Actual Couches
Here is a piece I was asked to write for Our Brother Legion a local Triad ministry that seeks to serve people living with mental illnesses by educating both clergy and his/her congregation. “Hemingway has his classic […]
A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 