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This is the index page for a selection of articles on subjects connected with healing. One of our main aims in this website is to provide material which will be useful to a wide variety of people - lay as well as professional. So the articles themselves also cover a wide variety of interests - theological, pastoral, practical, medical, devotional. The Guild has always sought to tackle subjects in depth, believing that nothing less will do with something that touches people when they are at their most vulnerable. So we have sought people of proved experience and authority in their own spheres to write articles for us, and this is reflected in the selection we have made here. Up to the present it has only been possible to reproduce a limited number of articles, but we hope to add considerably to our 'library' in the months that lie ahead. We see this as one of our major contributions to a side of life which looms large in the thinking of so many people both within and outside the Church.
Index of Topics [Dates following the title refer to the date the article was written. Where the author's present position is mentioned that also refers to the date at the time of writing.] Children's Hospice. 'Whose Side is God On?' (2002). Sister Frances Dominica, the founder of Helen House, writes movingly of how children and their parents cope with suffering and death. Dementia. 'In a Strange Land' (2002). The Revd Malcolm Goldsmith, the Rector of St Cuthbert's Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, who has made a special study of spirituality and dementia, looks at the challenge dementia poses to our theology. Doctor-Clergy Co-operation. 'A Priest Surgery' (2006). Dr Diana Lowry, a full-time NHS GP, tells how she has set up a 'Priest Surgery' in the practice where she works, to enable people to see a priest to discuss spiritual issues on 'neutral ground'. Fears about Healing. 'Facing Fears in the Christian Healing Ministry' (1995) was the subject of the Henry Cooper Lecture given by the Revd Stephen Parsons, who at that time was the Editor of Health and Healing, the journal of the Churches' Council for Health and Healing. In this article he considers a number of issues for disquiet in the healing ministry as it is practised and taught in certain quarters. Genetic Engineering. 'Should we make people in our own image?' (2001). Professor Michael Reiss, who is Professor of Science Education and Head of Science and Technology at the University of London Institute of Education and also a priest in the Church of England, looks at the controversial field of genetic engineering and considers its possibilities as a means to healing and wholeness.
Healing and Wholeness in the context of eternity. 'What is unique about the Christian healing ministry?' (2005). Beatrice Brandon, co-editor of the General Synod report A Time to Heal, replies that it offers more than physical or mental health. It offers spiritual health - something which is 'for more than a lifetime - it is for eternity'. M.E. (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 'The Other Side of the Dark' (2003): The Very Revd Michael Mayne, who was for ten years Dean of Westminster, reflects on the time before that when he was unable to work because of ME, and the light he discovered on the other side of the dark. Substance Abuse. 'Drugs and the Christian Community' (2001): The Revd Kenneth Leech, who founded the Soho Drugs Group in 1967 and Centrepoint in 1969, writes about the part the Church can play in combating the drugs problem and in caring for and supporting those affected by it. Suffering. 'Searching for a Meaning' (2002). The Revd Emma Childs, who is a member of the Guild Council and holds an MTh in Applied Theology from Oxford University, looks for clues to the meaning of suffering in a story where suffering does have meaning - the story of Christ's suffering and death, a story which is made present for us today as we come to know him in the Eucharist. Totally Paralysed yet Able to Communicate by Computer. 'Feelings about my Life' (2001): Dave Kelly, who was badly injured in an accident in 1996, gives a moving account of what it feels like to be almost totally paralysed and unable to communicate, and tells of how he surmounted this tremendous handicap with the help of his speech and language therapist and his computer. |
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