by Tom Peterson | Sep 28, 2021 | FaithHealth Reflection, Prayer
New book of Prayers by Gary Gunderson Order HERE (All revenue supports Stakeholder Health) By Gerry Winslow Most prayers never become famous. There are except-ions, of course. The one taught by Jesus that asks for debts to be forgiven “as we forgive our...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 11, 2019 | FaithHealth Reflection, population health north carolina
By Gary Gunderson North Carolina sticks dangerously far out into the Atlantic Ocean, so we pay close attention to hurricanes and how they move. The vortex of swirling winds seems like it could bludgeon its way anywhere it might want to go. Actually, those winds...
by Tom Peterson | Jul 15, 2019 | FaithHealth Reflection
A Meditation on Matthew 2:12–15 By Francis Rivers Meza I recently had conversation with friends about a James Baldwin novel published to little acclaim in 1968, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone. The words of the title sounded familiar to us,...
by Tom Peterson | May 7, 2019 | FaithHealth Community, FaithHealth Reflection
By Gary Gunderson The town was mostly long gone, the factories and downtown stores with more ghosts than workers or customers. Hard-working people with hardly any work to do. Everything struggled — the restaurants, roads, post office, clinics and churches. Disease and...
by Tom Peterson | Apr 17, 2019 | FaithHealth Reflection
By Andrea Simmonds Much like every day in chaplain residency I never know what to expect. Most days I decide that today is the day I will work on my written work, get caught up, and then spend the rest of my time in the clinic rather than the other way...
by Tom Peterson | Mar 12, 2019 | FaithHealth Reflection
By Gerald Thomas In Elegy for Iris, John Bayley chronicles the toll Alzheimer’s disease takes on his wife, Iris Murdoch: The power of concentration has gone, along with the dignity to form coherent sentences and to remember where she is, or has been. She does not know...