Exploring Structures of Care
Symposium introduction. By George Aumoithe
Category: Healthcare & Medicine
How Can Black Religious Spaces Enhance Mental Health Outcomes?
A symposium introduction. By Marla F. Frederick
Black Religion and Mental Health
Dialogue Black Religion and Mental Health Autumn/Winter 2024 Share on X (Twitter) Share on...
Nurturing Black Maternal Health
There’s plenty of data on Black maternal mental health and obstetric racism but we are not providing the culturally responsive care that is needed. By Sevonna Brown
Converging Crises
In New York City, homelessness, immigration, and racism are converging to the point of a crisis. By Henry Love
Why Rosa Parks Did Yoga
Inspiring stories of collective self-care are evident in the life writings of Black women, including Rosa Parks. By Stephanie Y. Evans
Black Religion as Barrier and Balm
Black religious communities should be places of spiritual liberation for those who live with mental health challenges. By Monica A. Coleman
The Racialization of Religious Excitement in American Psychiatry
Historically, white psychiatrists produced theories of religion that became constitutive elements of their racialized understandings of the normal and disordered mind. By Judith Weisenfeld
Rooting in Relationality
Recent publications on plant consciousness invite us to rethink our entanglements with plant life and our understanding of ourselves among other species. By Natalia Schwien Scott
A Theological Reckoning with ‘Bad Trips’
Reducing transcendence to its therapeutic potential ignores volumes of wisdom from traditions that emphasize the dangers of nonordinary experience. By Rachael Petersen
‘Chaplain, Can You Do an Exorcism?’
To accompany people struggling with command auditory hallucinations, the author uses a metaphorical approach and works within each patient’s own religious framework. By Jeremy D. Sher
Chanting through the Spring Surge
An interview with Sarah Byrne-Martelli, a chaplain at Massachusetts General Hospital, on the quiet camaraderie and unnamed grief among hospital staff during the pandemic. By Wendy McDowell
A Minister Cultivates Abiding
The current pandemic provides a context to learn what it means to bear witness while impotent to reverse human suffering. By Emily Click
Chaplaincy as ‘Tragic Improv’
Erica Rose Long describes the honest conversations about race taking place at Massachusetts General Hospital and discusses the unique challenges and joys of chaplaincy. By Wendy McDowell
A Jewel in the Lotus
The Buddha’s life, teachings, and response to human suffering inform practices of spiritual care in the hospital, and also in the classroom. By Chris Berlin
Practical and Spiritual Resources for Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care
A selected reading list from HDS faculty and chaplains offers resources for chaplaincy and pastoral care.
Plague Wisdom
Learning from queer elders who cared for the dying through the horrors of the AIDS crisis. By Cody Hooks
Ways of ‘Knowing’ Cancer
For an academic who has been living with cancer since 1996, reflecting on the ways we think and make value judgments about serious illness cannot help but be an existential endeavor. By Mark U. Edwards, Jr.
When Treatment Is in Question
Principles to remember after Terri Schiavo. By Robert P. George
