I am grateful to Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN) for giving me and others with Lived Experience opportunities to tell our stories to help celebrate World Mental Health day on October 10th. https://www.mhinnovation.net/collaborations/lived-experience-stories In part: “My life as a person with bipolar disorder began in 1965 when I spent nine months in a mental hospital. […]
Read More...Photo by Ro Niyamot Ullah NEVER TO SURRENDER by Sirajul Islam I am a tenacious revolutionary, championing freedom for my life, for my marginalized community. None dares deter my journey, I shall persist in my daring quest As long as I breathe A multitude of trials surround me, I’m hurt more than I can explain, […]
Read More...JESUS AND HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE LIVING ROOM Perhaps the problem with helping non-Christians understand and accept the love of Jesus, is because He is thought of in terms too narrow for people to be able make a part of their traditional faith. In the work I’m doing, I try to make the Living Room spiritual […]
Read More...A LIVINGROOM DEVOTIONAL Since 2006 I have worked on behalf of individuals who live with mental health challenges. The loss of Living Room in 2018 has meant that Christians are learning ABOUT what mental health challenges are, but the voices of those who EXPERIENCE it have disappeared, along with their groups. We are talked “about,” […]
Read More...LIVINGROOM SPIRITUAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT HE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN WITH HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE Along with the rest of the world I’m deeply distressed about what is happening in the world today. And some of the people who are most being affected are those I care about—people who have suffered rejection. For some of […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM JESUS IS FOR ALL FAITHS Perhaps the problem with people today and why it is so hard for them to accept Jesus is that He is thought of in terms too narrow for most people to understand or accept. In the work I do I make the Living Room spiritual mental health groups […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM Yes some of my ideas – like unconditional love for all people, no matter who they are, where they’re from, and how they worship – are often not accepted. In fact, frowned on by people of my own faith. Yet I believe this approach will lead to a path to world peace. These […]
Read More...A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL Photo and story by Marja Bergen As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. (Luke 10:38-39) I’ve been […]
Read More...A local Christian magazine has been publishing Zionist articles, taking Israel’s point of view in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. I responded twice with the view I held as a person who follows Christ trying to live in the way He has taught me to live. My comments were not published. Instead, the author of the article […]
Read More...JESUS AND HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE (I wrote the major part of this post as a comment on a long pro-Israeli, Zionist article published in a well-known Christian publication. My initial comment was withdrawn. I was instead emailed by the author of the piece, asking me about my problem with it. This is my response to […]
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