Meetings Resume!
We’ve been waiting a long time for this: we’re resuming face-to-face meetings! Thursday, 6:30 pm (meeting now): Baptist Youth Center, 700 W. Market St. (about a half mile west Read More
Addiction
Healing the Hopeless
This sermon, preached via Zoom for Immanuel Mennonite Church, uses the story of the Gerasene Demoniac to describe the nature of addiction, the challenges to Church faces in addressing it, Read More
“A Most Practical Book”
My eyes have been opened to dimensions of addiction I never knew about. One of the most practical books I have read in a long while, I expect to use Read More
The Problem with Religion
Religion is powerful. It has justified and motivated wars that have killed millions of people. And it has moved people to great social change, from nonviolent movements like the abolition Read More
Miracles Among Us?
Do you see miracles in the world? I do. Every person who recovers from addiction is evidence of God’s work in the world. That may be the best reason why Read More
The Soul of an Addict: Now available from the publisher
D.J.’s new book, The Soul of an Addict, is now available direct from his publishing company, as well as from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The book has been highly praised Read More
Getting Out
Whether it’s jail or rehab, how does an addict stay clean when they get out? I met William in his last week at a program that helped former inmates deal Read More
Another Take on Addiction
This article by Conan Milner provides an interesting challenge to the two most popular models of addiction, disease and choice. If addiction is a spiritual disease, then the cure has Read More
New Book on Addiction and Recovery
D.J. Mitchell has just published a new book on addiction and recovery. Intended for anyone who wants to understand addiction better, it argues that addiction is more complex than we Read More
How Do We Heal?
This short talk considers the bleeding woman in Mark 5, and what the Gospel tells us about how we heal.