What Dying Patients Are Teaching Me About the End of Life

1. We Lay Down Trophies and Accolades After visiting a well-known aging pastor and his wife, I thought about the couple’s influence among their peers, church, community, and denomination. Most of this had vanished because of their declining health and years...
When Trust Erodes Love Fades

When Trust Erodes Love Fades

When Trust Erodes Love Fades Throughout my ministry, I have counseled about 150 couples.  Many have been pre-marital couples and others have been couples with marital problems.  Through my counseling and my marriage, I have learned how important trust is to...

30 Years Later Henry Peabody Returns to the Buduburam Refugee Camp

A few weeks ago, Rev. Henry Peabody revisited the Buduburam Refugee Camp, located twenty-seven miles west of Accra, Ghana, where he spent several years of his life over 30 years ago.  Henry was one of the hundreds of thousands of Liberian refugees displaced by a...

Avoidance Allows Fear to Grow

When I was a child/adolescent, I was diagnosed with a “nervous stomach.” Fifty years ago, I don’t know how much my doctor knew about the correlation between anxiety and the body. My doctor never used the word “anxiety” to describe my condition, nor was I ever offered...