"The Stranger' puts a face and real life experience to the statistics bantered around in the immigration debate. Suddenly these numbers have names and families with the same hopes and dreams of all people. Yes, our brothers and sisters created in the image of God. The word 'welcome' takes on new power throughout the movie." Jo Anne Lyon, General Superintendent, The Wesleyan Church
Mass Incarceration and the Black Church
Odyssey produces a weekly resource that links topical issues to the common lectionary using video and biblical scholarship. One of the most recent resources focuses
on mass incarceration: ON Scripture -The Bible. It appears every Monday on Odyssey Networks website. You can access the resource and sign up for their newsletter at their website: Click HERE
What do we share in common as a human race? Despite increasing diversity, we remain deeply divided as a society today. We often find ourselves separated along religious, political, and cultural lines. Polarized public dialogues and culture wars intensify divisions within our communities.
In response, "A Peace of My Mind introduces us to people we likely would never meet on our own - because of differences in ethnic background, faith or the locations we live. And as we get to know these people, we come to realize that our differences are miniscule in light of the most-important trait: that we all want peace," wrote Faith & Values reporter Jeff Strickler of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Trauma Healing Institute of American Bible Society
The core program is based on a workbook called Healing the Wounds of Trauma. First developed in Africa in 2001, it has been in regular use since then. It is now in its third revised edition (2013). It provides basic mental health concepts within a biblical framework, using Scripture passages and composite real-life stories to help people connect the teaching with their circumstances. It has been used with tens of thousands of pastors, counselors and traumatized people.
Its four authors include a psychiatrist, a professional counselor, a translation and Scripture Engagement consultant, and a missiologist. Co-author Dr. Harriet Hill now works with American Bible Society and directs the Trauma Healing Institute. Dr. Hill says that trauma is a wounding of the heart, and healing heart wounds happens best in the heart language. This is one reason materials are now translated in whole or part into more than 150 languages.
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