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religion and mental illness

This forum post (I believe from the PatientsLikeMe forum) is the piece of writing that has had the most influence over me in the past seven years or so. How do you incorporate a sense of spirituality in your treatment if you do and if don’t why ? I’ve worked on this...

Discouraged Worker Article

Really good article on discouraged workers: Those silences significantly trouble me because of their ethical implications. Two of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers — Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas — argued that communicative reciprocity is what...

BACKSPACE [poetry]

I have started reading my poetry aloud at an open mic down by the bus station.  I’ve been writing poetry since 1997 so I figure by now I should try reading it. saying “human reason is bent” so we can’t use it to argue the faith is like writing...

The Best Life

This is the best life for those who think for themselves.  There is either no afterlife or the afterlife we’ll end up in won’t be good (at least according more than half of the world’s population).

More on Fail Safes

A lot of church people don’t support Obamacare and the Medicaid expansion that gives poor people healthcare.  I have even heard people say the church should take care of the healthcare needs of its parishioners, not the state.  If your church is doing this...