What Mentally Ill Persons Wish their Clergy Understood Guest Contributor October 16, 2020 Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church By Shirley O’Shea In the summer of 2016, I experienced a profound bipolar depression that made daily functioning for me impossible. The breakdown — this word best describes my experience — had been coming fo... Read More...
A first-rate insanity: Leadership and mental illness Mother Miriam, CSM March 8, 2017 Books, Commentary, The Episcopal Church Is there a link between mental illness and forceful leadership?
The craft of suffering The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner February 15, 2017 Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary, The Episcopal Church The Christian experience of suffering is distinctive. “Pain without God is intolerable. Everything in our culture flows from this ‘without God’; and, in this case, pain therefore sweeps everything before itself.”
Truth made flesh Guest Contributor December 16, 2016 Commentary, The Episcopal Church The in-breaking of the kingdom of God shows up to me rarely in the grand gestures of life, but instead in the tender moments when God slows me down long enough to see the truth of God’s love, which silences — even just for a second — the lies of depression.
The anxiety of possibility Emily Hylden February 29, 2016 Commentary On Friday, I walked to work. It doesn't seem like news worth noting, but what was significant for me was the almost euphoric freedom I felt in the exercise.
Light, when my only companion is darkness Emily Hylden November 26, 2015 Books, Commentary My dad, an ophthalmologist, tells a joke on his own pe0ple: whatever the ailment and specialty, when diagnosis is more an art than a set of facts, he'll reply, "Well, that's a poorly understood branch of medicine." Of course, they're all poorly understood bran... Read More...
An open letter to twenty-somethings Craig Uffman February 11, 2015 Commentary The clock ticks, and we name each tick a curse rather than thanking God for the gift of time. But that's not seeing the world as it is revealed by Jesus the Messiah.
