Health Library

Download the entire Health issue and the set of six Study Guides. Or, download individual pieces by clicking the titles below.

• Articles
"Revisioning Health," by James A. Marcum and Robert B. Kruschwitz
"Jesus as Healer," by John J. Pilch
"Eating Well: Seven Paradoxes of Plenty," by Mary Louise Bringle
"Dying Well," by Abigail Rian Evans
"What Would the Good Samaritan Do?" by Ann Neale and Jeff Tieman

• Art
Health in Christian Art, by Heidi J. Hornik
"Peter's Shadow," on Masaccio's Peter Healing with His Shadow
"Interrupted," on the early Christian mosaic Jesus Healing the Woman with an Issue of Blood

• Hymn and Worship Service
"Silent Faces," by Terry W. York and C. David Bolin
Worship Service, by David G. Miller

• Inspirational Pieces
"There Is No Health in Us," by Dennis L. Sansom
"Austin Heights and AIDS," by Kyle Childress
Other Voices, Quotations on Health

• Book Reviews
"Redeeming Medicine," by Keith G. Meador
• Joel James Shuman and Brian Volck, Reclaiming the Body: Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine
• Jean Denton, Good is the Flesh: Body, Soul, and Christian Faith

"The Healing Congregation," by Brian Volck
• Mary Chase-Ziolek, Health, Healing and Wholeness: Engaging Congregations in Ministries of Health
• W. Daniel Hale and Harold G. Koenig, Healing Bodies and Souls: A Practical Guide for Congregations
• Margaret Kim Peterson, Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage

• Study Guides and Lesson Plans (Download the set of six Study Guides)
• "Revisioning Health"
• "Jesus as Healer"
• "Eating Well"
• "Dying Well"
• "There Is No Health in Us"
• "What Would the Good Samaritan Do?"

Further Reading:
"Hungry Souls," by Thomas Hibbs (Food and Hunger)
"Who's Hungry? Who Cares?" by Jack Marcum (Food and Hunger)
"Heavenly Hunger," by R. Marie Griffith (Food and Hunger)
"Power Made Perfect in Weakness," by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung (Suffering)
"Suffering Servants," by Waldemar Janzen (Suffering)