The Rev. Judy Slater has stress-reducing and anxiety-alleviating techniques at her fingertips. Following a webinar she put on last week, so do members of Presbyterians for Earth Care.
A California pastor describes her struggles of continuing to be a voice of hope even in the midst of a pandemic and personal foibles.
A North Carolina church youth group has been helping adolescents with mental health check-ins to improve their coping skills.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for more church ministries and services, but this has led to compassion fatigue.
The COVID-19 pandemic. Record breaking natural disasters. Racial injustice and unrest. Rising poverty. Fear of election violence. So, with all of this trauma and extra stress 2020 has unleashed, how does one cope with anxiety or depression? This was the topic of a Sunday evening conversation hosted by 1001 New Worshiping Communities. Their guests were Dena and Jason Hobbs, who are familiar with the struggle of anxiety and depression, both professionally and personally.
Using a question-and-answer format, a longtime Presbyterian pastor and an inquirer in Sacramento Presbytery offered a workshop Saturday during the 2020 Intercultural Transformation Workshops.
The physical distancing and isolation occasioned by COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on churches. They must name their grief, mourn their losses and strive to find hope.
When Laura Mitchell receives a nudge from God, she sees it through. “Sunrise of Hope,” a one-day mental health summit hosted by La Jolla Presbyterian Church in California this past spring, was one of those nudges.
Las clases han comenzado en nuestra ciudad. Observo a los jóvenes de nuestro barrio caminar con esmero hasta la pequeña colina en la parte delantera de nuestra subdivisión para ir al autobús. Debido a que toma un tiempo para averiguar qué autobús es el autobús correcto, a menudo se ven a las madres de pie en frente de sus casas para mirar a sus hijos hasta que el autobús llegue. Luego, una por una, toman sus tazas de café y regresan a sus casas.
Estoy aún más consciente de que algunas de las mamás todavía tienen una gran cantidad de …
Shortly after the Rev. Frank Yamada began his keynote address to the Big Tent today (Aug. 2), his cell phone rang. As he scrambled to answer, so did numerous others of the 1,000 participants gathered in the Kentucky International Convention Center ballroom.
Admitting that his cell phone ring was scripted, Yamada ― president of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago ―asked, “Didn’t you check your own cellphones, wondering if it was your’s? Chances are you stopped concentrating when it happened on what I was saying. You were concentrating on that little buzz.”