by Keith Herron | Jun 4, 2021 | Opinion
With over half a million deaths in this country alone, who has not been touched by this pandemic? The unseen lines of connection have been skewed or even severed as our once familiar communities have been crippled. In the aftermath, there’s a deep need to rebuild the...
by Keith Herron | May 17, 2021 | Opinion
Churches coming out of this past year’s sequestering should consider creating opportunities for members to share their COVID-19 stories with one another. It’s been 14 months now since many churches went into social isolation. While there have been abundant virtual...
by Keith Herron | Apr 28, 2021 | Opinion
Houses of faith are now considering a deliberate move back to in-person worship as the number of inoculations is rising. But no one believes we will simply take off our masks and step back in time to a previous way of being. We cannot simply go back to the way things...
by Keith Herron | Nov 23, 2020 | Opinion
Prayer is an antidote to despair. Notice I didn’t suggest a promise about depression I can’t guarantee? Truthfully, prayer is not much of an antidote to depression because mostly it’s just not. Working with depression is a reminder of how chronic it can be and how...
by Keith Herron | May 11, 2020 | Opinion
The ancients knew about the power of identity, the power of one knowing who they were, and the power of the self. Without having a science called psychology to describe their inner world, they were still able to identify and claim a sense of themselves in such a way...
