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Escaping cliches’
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Cheryl Petersen
It took three times in a row for me to hear, “It’s okay, Cheryl, I’m in control,” for it to stick. A freak explosion of fire in the heavy equipment I was operating, distracted me. Clothes on fire, I escaped from an open window in the cab. I have no recollection of jumping and crashing…
Saying yes to life
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Cheryl Petersen
More than 30,000 Christian denominations exist worldwide, according to the World Christian Encyclopedia. Thirty thousand. That’s an enormous number. A 2018 Barna Research study reports that, “Churches of all stripes practice their own flavor of ministry in cities across the United States, all based on particular interpretations of scripture and style.” Arguably, there is no…
Escaping self-harm
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Cheryl Petersen
Experts describe self-injury as intentional acts of inflicting pain and damage to one’s own body. A person can cut, burn, scratch, or bruise their self. They can consume too much alcohol or drugs, or hook-up in unsafe sex. WebMD tells us, however, that self-injury isn’t the same thing as a suicide attempt. Self-harm is generally…
Basics of Christian Science: Its origin, beliefs, and structure
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Cheryl Petersen
Discovery: In the 1860s, Mary Baker Eddy discovered a reality of divine mind and its manifestation. She called it Christian Science and said it included a system of mental healing, the same system used by Christ Jesus and prophets. Before organizing a church, Eddy taught mind-healing to students in a classroom setting, using the Bible…
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