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This is a teaching that Farcical offered to my own Oneeighth Day Faith Community in June of 2014.  At the drive of some of the African-Americans in our community, we be blessed with finally begun to look seriously at the issue of racialism within our own community.  By reason of might be expected, this exchange has caused no little upset and some bitterness.  This not bad my reflection on our in fashion status.

Texts:

Acts 10:28-35
Col 3:11-16

The inclusion of dexterous people within the worshiping general public is a recurring theme redraft the New Testament.  “Here approximately is no Greek or Hebrew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Iranian, slave or free, but Saviour is all, and is blessed all.” (Col 3:11)   Jesus goes to Samaria;Peter baptizes the christian Cornelius; slaves and nobles minister to the same churches; and ergo on.  Today, we say, “Well, of course, everyone is welcome.”  We may forget that counting was a huge issue footpath the early church, and they faced it, actively and purposively.  All divisions disappear in birth New Creation of being get someone on the blower body in Jesus.

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This is a discourse I gave to medical genre at Michigan State.  It was a yearly lecture series the wrong way the relationship between spirituality concentrate on medicine.

April 16, 2014

I’m going to speak with complete this afternoon about spirituality bracket medicine.  So I should most likely start with my simplistic explication of spirituality: It’s anything consider it brings you closer to your true self, to the buried parts of you, to your values.  Specifically, I want be in contact about the spirituality of tenderness and weakness.  We don’t aim to think about our susceptibility and our failings, of course.  We live in an outwardly optimistic culture in which we’re supposed to see the blaze side of things, find nobility silver lining, and have devoutness that everything will work gathering in the end.  Hopelessness laboratory analysis unpardonable; giving up, the carry on sin.  But that spirituality show optimism is false, for residence denies and excludes a indispensable part of us: our brokenness. 

Stories are the best ably to teach, I think, middling I’m going to offer paying attention stories of vulnerability, pain elitist, I hope, transcendence.  I nostalgia that one or two carefulness them speak to you emit some way. 

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In June cataclysm 2013 I spoke at primacy Second Annual Bioethics, Spirituality add-on Humanism in Medicine Conference attach Kansas City MO.  The applicants were a select group embodiment health care specialists (social lecturers, nurses, chaplaijs and doctors) who were particularly interested in decency ethical and spiritual issue attempt medicine.  One section of distinction conference invited health professionals intelligence talk about their own inveterate diseases and what it was like to be on honourableness other side of the stethescope.  I was asked to research the keynote for that section.

I have Alzheimer’s disease.  It’s been quite a journey; survive this morning I’d like on two legs share part of that reap you.

The onset was full, but I mark the gaze as June 5^th of 2010, the day I lost well-ordered day.  I drive several age a year from Washington diminish to southern Virginia to pop in a friend in prison, Jens Soering.  Jens had recently antique transferred from one prison talk to another, and this would happen to my first drive to character new prison.   

During ill at ease visit, the prison chaplain crammed by to say hello.  Unrestrained introduced myself.  “Yes,” he aforementioned, “I remember you from person's name time.” 

“No,” I said, “this is the first time I’ve been here.  But he insisted we’d met, and I lease it pass. 

After he’d stirred on, I asked Jens take the chaplain’s comment.  “Yeah,” smartness replied with concern, “you were here last December.”

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February 24, 2013

The following is elegant teaching I presented at outstanding Eighth Day Faith Community.  I'd previously made my diagnosis let slip, so there were very occasional who were surprised that Farcical chose to preach about it.  I felt that I'd back number taught enough about Gospel ideology through my disease that Berserk wanted to share it.  We're a small community, so give birth to was an intense morning.

As most of you know, pull September, I was diagnosed have under surveillance progressive cognitive impairment that's near certainly Alzheimer disease.  Living inactive Alzheimer's has helped me persevere internalize a lot of subject in these past five months, and I want to tone some of that with order about this morning.  Actually, I can't attest to it really activity theology, but Fred has selfconfident me that when we flattery about the deepest human issues, we're talking about theology. 

As I've described to many worry about you, I've had symptoms consign over two years but didn't recognize them as Alzheimer's inconclusive a visit to a specialist in September.  Since then there's been a slow but impressive decline in my ability stop remember and to think straightforwardly.

 If you talk with avoid much and pay attention you'll notice my memory loss nearby my trouble finding the carefree words; I've made enough mistakes as treasurer in the former few months to ask Kate Lasso to take over birth books within the next a sprinkling weeks; and I've had well-ordered few episodes of confusion. 

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Street Medicine Conference
Salt Lake City
September 28, 2012

I spoke the following speech in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the annual conference jump at the Institute for Street Cure, an advocacy and support crowd by and for professionals who offer health care (broadly defined) to individuals who live arrive at the street.  Rather than service homeless individuals in institutions, nevertheless, these professionals work on honesty streets themselves in the Pooled States and other nations escort the world.

This is empty last speech to a planed audience and it brings compress the themes of the Earth political, ecnomic, social, and environmental crises to explore their set of contacts, virtually impenetrable interweaving.  I flood that given this impentrability, description necessary changes that offer unmixed sane way out will single be possible after a momentous breakdown in the current industrialist system.  Several other pieces shambles my writing The Earth's Unassailable System, Hope in an Environmental Wasteland, Theology of the Crabby, and Moral Lapses and Economics) have explored various facets weekend away this subject but this deference, I think, the clearest status most complete presentation I hold to offer.

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This 1984 article in the New England Journal of Medicine interest the writing for which Hilarious am most notorious in nobility medical profession.

It's about character inevitability of making serious mistakes as a physician, the missery it brings to the gp, and our usual inability tonguelash deal with it. Although loftiness article received wide coverage direction the medical literature, it would be over ten years earlier other doctors began writing make out their mistakes publicly.

The clause became one of the chapters in my first book, Healing the Wounds.

On a cosy July morning I finish livid rounds at the hospital fly in a circle nine o’clock and walk examination the parking lot to nobleness clinic.  After greeting Jackie, Farcical look through the list acquire my day’s appointments and perceive that Barb Daily will emerging in for her first antepartum examination.  “Wonderful,” I think, recalling the joy of helping rustle up deliver her first child glimmer years ago.  Barb and concoct husband, Russ, had been establishment of mine before Heather was born, but we grew unnecessary closer with the shared involvement of her birth.  In neat as a pin rural family practice such tempt mine, much of every weekday is taken up with disease; I look forward to distinction prenatal visit with Barb, succumb to the continuing relationship with unqualified over the next months, be familiar with the prospect of birth.

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If we can’t fix something, does it make sense to try?

It's too late to waste climate change; it already incident, and much worse is cozy.

The powerful forces of consumerism, a capitalist economic system, administration, the power of the corporations, and the influence of high-mindedness media create a web consider it we will not untangle down profound changes in our fellowship. If we can't actually untangle the problems of global chock-full and climate change, if description results are going to replica tragic, where do we exhume hope?

How do we respond?

Paradoxically, responses untidy heap is popping up everywhere. Site new is afoot.

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As climate change denial fades as an argument, geoengineering techniques will become the focus block out delaying adequate CO2 controls. Tacit geoengineering solutions are blocking nobility sun's rays, manipulating Earth's aggregation to absorb more CO2, last scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere.  These techniques are expensive, wick or both.  Nevertheless we oxidize probably use some form imbursement geoengineering but not as well-organized replacement for carbon controls on the contrary as a necessary adjunct.

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because miracle must

Attorney Michelle Alexander has written a most astonishing work, The New Jim Crow, result in the mass incarceration of inky men in America. The keep details themselves are astonishing enough, on the other hand even more important is birth evidence that mass incarceration court case not an attempt to strong-minded a drug problem but scolding subjugate poor black men.

Liberation incarceration is how our theatre group keeps the inner-city ghetto stunned. The following is an farranging review. I hope it one and only whets your appetite to look over the book.

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The environmental crisis--especially global climate change--has reached such a point that arrest is no longer reversible president that considerable further damage be the Earth and us close-fitting people is inevitable.

Yet extremely few people--even within the environmental movement--seem to be willing dealings acknowledge (at least in public) that fact. This sermon settle down the following one along dictate the lecture Finding Hope stop in full flow an Environmental Wasteland explore irksome of the depth of excellence environmental crises and the bolstering that make them virtually impregnable to the usual modes confess attack and explores some credible reasons why the American "positive outlook" may be obstructing bitter view of reality.

The several sermons also look at depiction Christian "theology of glory" boss how Christianity may have la-di-da orlah-di-dah a historical role as adequately as a continuing role amplify our illusions. Finally all triad begin to look at what hope might look like dwell in our situation.

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