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Barbara Dossey on spirituality-based nursing

Dr. Barbara Dossey, one of the keynote speakers at the 16th Annual Westberg Parish Nurse Symposium shared some thoughts about spirituality with Elizabeth Beam who covered the conference for the Journal.

"The Interest In Faith And Health is exploding, and with it, a huge increase in parish nursing," said the Rev. Deborah Patterson, Executive Director of The International Parish Nurse Resource Center and facilitator of the 16th Annual Westberg Parish Nurse Symposium.

A parish nurse shares God's love

Mary Ann Brischetto smiles brilliantly each time she shares one of her deeply felt thoughts about parish nursing as we talked at her office in the church. She said at the conference, "It's the easiest thing in the world because it is the sharing of God's unconditional love.

The Notion that certain illnesses are incurable is the greatest error that man is subject to today. In reality, he simply hasn't found a cure for the disease, and so he calls it incurable.

The power of going home

Every Week There Are News Reports about people facing threats from which there appears to be no way out. Then, occasionally, encouraging stories describe means of deliverance beyond what the human mind can imagine.

Church in a combat zone

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What? Me inflexible?

Over the years certain ways of doing things become habitual, pile up, and finally seem like unchangeable rules. Unless people take time to rethink them, these ways become mindless or rigid in any organization and in individuals' personal lives.

Church: connecting with the community

White Plains, New York, sits just north of New York City. Once a country club area, White Plains is now what some residents call a microcosm of America, with people of all types and income levels, religions and ethnicities.

Why Church matters to me

There's nothing like a cozy stove fire in the mountains of Idaho on a chilly January day. Each year I cut and split about eight cords of pine for days like that.

Church: A place of love

Many years ago, I developed an interest in church architecture that led me to travel to various cities to take pictures of churches. I'm not talking about famous churches like Notre Dame in Paris or Winchester Cathedral in Winchester, England, or even my own country's National Cathedral in Washington, D.