by Don Ingwerson The sight of spinach on my dinner plate can – for me – ruin an otherwise good meal. Although I’ve always been told that eating spinach makes you healthy, this does little to change my feelings about the value of it. I’m not sure exactly what would make me reconsider my view of this green, leafy vegetable,
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by Don Ingwerson One night many years ago while I was serving in the military, the chaplain calmly and quietly told me over the phone that a soldier’s wife had been asphyxiated because of a gas leak in the family housing barracks. He asked me to go immediately to the base hospital and prayerfully support her. You might say that
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by Don Ingwerson I know we have touched on music before for its health benefits, and this article gives more insight into one composer’s motivation to bring healing through his music. The composer, Marc Neikrug, wrote Healing Ceremony with healing in mind, where he found that the compositions not only helped cancer patients, but also people with a wide variety
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A guest post written by Beverly Goldsmith, media and governmental spokesperson for Southern- Western Australia When your current health practices aren’t working, it’s OK to navigate your way to good health. You don’t have to take my word for it. Wanting to be healthy and well is what drives thousands of Australians to investigate what they can do to achieve
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A guest post written by Bill Downs The book of Job is a drama that highlights the age-old idea that God may be the cause of suffering as punishment for sin. Job has had many horrible things happen to him from a health perspective as well as from a financial perspective. Although Job insists he has not sinned, his friends
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by Don Ingwerson As you know from previous blogs, GWish (George Washington University Institute of Spirituality and Health) has been at the forefront to promote the concept that spirituality is tied to health and is an important component to healing. I found this article from George Washington University Newswise to be especially interesting because it details a recent conference in
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A guest post written by Cynthia P. Barnett, a media spokesperson and legislative contact for Christian Science in North Carolina, shares her thoughts on the power of prayer. It’s a little word, really. One that often gets overlooked in the drama of an exciting story as it’s told or recorded. The word is a soft one to say; it’s a
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by Don Ingwerson In January I posted a blog on previous Templeton Prize winners – people who have affirmed life’s spiritual dimension – and wondered who the 2013 Templeton Prize winner would be. Well, the new winner was awarded April 4 to Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, for his life-long work in advancing spiritual
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By Don Ingwerson I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Neil Wenger, Director of UCLA’s Health System Ethics Center, by phone about his highly regarded opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, “When CPR Isn’t the Right Medicine.” One clear message Dr. Wenger gave in his conversation and in the article was that each person needs to be an
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by Don Ingwerson “Mindfulness Meeting This Way” proclaimed a small sign at the entrance of one of the many medical buildings on the UCLA Campus – and suddenly I felt invigorated. I was not there to attend a mindfulness meeting, but to interview the GWish (George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health) project director, Dr. Margaret Stuber, about a Templeton-funded
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