PTSD, Moral Injury, and the Church’s Call to Respond
The category “moral injury” is not yet recognized as an official diagnosis in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association. Neither is it so...
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Forgiveness is the costliest gift one can receive. I know of no calculus for the value of the gift. Forgiveness is unique because it is offered to another who has done one harm, in any number of...
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Words of Engagement: Forgiveness – A Learning Curve
The will to embrace—love—sheds the light of knowledge by the fire it carries with it,” writes theologian Miroslav Volf in his essay “Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Justice.” “Our eyes need the light...
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Listening In: A Prayer of a Survivor
By C. John Weborg According to the Oxford Unabridged English Dictionary, the word “abuse” entered the English language about 1413. Latin in origin, it meant something like “to use up.” It acquired the...
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Of Tongues and Ears and the Traffic Between
Early on in the creation story, the first thing God declared not good was loneliness. Adam was alone. So a helper as a partner was given to Adam. That word “helper” occurs in Genesis 2:18 and 20 and...
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Going Where Angels Fear to Tread
I am going in this column where angels fear to tread. For a long time the Cyrus text in Isaiah 45 has pushed the edges of my interpretive integrity. So bear with me as one Christian tries his hand and...
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Scripture Demands More
Scripture Demands More Why the only way to understand the Bible is to put it down By C. John Weborg | September 5, 2016 When I was a student at North Park Theological Seminary from 1958 to 1961, Eric...
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Heaven’s Noble Refugee
C. John Weborg Dennis Moon’s hymn “For Mary, Joseph, ‘Twas No Place,” provided me a theme for this article. “For Mary, Joseph, ’twas the place / to sit and sup at tables’ grace. / A longing sojourn...
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Church in the Making
C. John Weborg The first column I wrote for the Companion appeared in January 1987 with the title “Victims of a Star.” It spoke of the uninvited visits of the shepherds and magi to the newly born...
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