HEALING April * June 1997 Volume 6 No.2

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON HEALING

The Healing Ministry of Miriam.........................................................Phyllis Trible.......................1
A restored Miriam embodies leadership and healing

Social Reconstruction: At the Heart of the Biblical View of Healing....Keith A. Russel..................4
God's promise of a new social order is realized through healing

Soul-Sized Healers...........................................................................Doris Donnelly...................5
Henri Nouwen's concept of the wounded healer includes awareness of the illness of our culture

Faith and Healing: A Personal Perspective........................................Henry H. Mitchell...............6
Specific experiences of the role prayer plays in healing

Wholeness and Health in the Practice of Jesus..................................Bruce Chilton......................8
Our health and wholeness are based on our embracing of how God wants us to be

The Deep Deep Core of Things: Where Profound Healing Begins.....Thomas H. Troeger...........10
We are healed by God's identification with our suffering

The False Expectation of Healing......................................................Dana English....................12
The intent of Jesus' healing is to restore wholeness to afflicted human beings

Testimony of Healing........................................................................William J. Carl, Jr.............14
Three lessons of faith and healing

Listening as Healing..........................................................................Arthur Egendorf...............16
A psychologist reflects on the healing power of listening

Back from Beirut: A Hostage Finds Healing.......................................Tom Sutherland...............18
Healing is possible even after six years of captivity

Healing: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary.........................................Ann Hallstein...................20
Healing power is possible in and through ordinary people

Pastors, Preachers & The Healing Arts: The Wesleyan Tradition........William C. Simpson, Jr.....22
John Wesley's commitment to healing as part of God's work in the world

Borne By Others: A Cancer Survivor's Journey..................................Regina Griffin, R.S.C.J....24
An invitation to die and rise with Jesus

Love Heals.......................................................................................Walter J. Burghardt, S.J...26
Jesus healed on the physical, psychological and spiritual levels

A Healing Gene.................................................................................June Bingham..................27
A reflection on the discovery of a single gene that empowers us to heal and nurture others

QUOTATIONS ON HEALING

In the Hebrew Scriptures [28]
In the New Testament Scriptures	[29]
Theologians, Scholars & Philosophers [30]
Medical Doctors & Psychologists [31]
Poets, Writers & Commentators [32]

BOOKS ON HEALING

Hope for the Troubled Heart by Billy Graham [33]
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison [33]
Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins [34]
Timeless Healing by Herbert Benson, M.D. [35]
A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability by Kathy Black [36]
Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil, M.D. [37]

IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON HEALING

Time For Healing............................................................................Lucretia Bingham...............38
Saving & Healing: A Package Deal.................................................Martin E. Marty.................39
The Midrash & Healing..................................................................Edward A. Goldman..........40
Healing Rituals for Restoration and Empowerment..........................Diann L. Neu.....................42
Spiritual Healing: Breath and Oneness.............................................Ronald Robbins.................44
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Disease in the Realm................................Ginger Grab.......................45
Preaching the Lectionary: The Search for Healing and Salvation.......Judith Hoch Wray.............46

 
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