by Tom Peterson | Feb 16, 2017 | FaithHealth Reflection
By Gary Gunderson We recently gathered in Davis Chapel of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a chapel that often gives refuge to the grieving. We had gathered to give each other the shelter of our shared prayers for peace, reconciliation, simple decency in a...
by Tom Peterson | Jan 31, 2017 | FaithHealth Community, FaithHealth Reflection
By Chris Gambill The “elephant in the room” is a metaphor used to describe an issue that we know is real, but no one wants to talk about. For those of us in congregations, the more helpful metaphor and question may be, “Is...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 14, 2016 | FaithHealth Community, FaithHealth Reflection
By Gary Gunderson An institution dedicated to healing is naturally nice to people when they are patients. And a leading academic research institution such as Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is smart about the diseases of its patients. But...
by Tom Peterson | Oct 12, 2016 | FaithHealth Community, FaithHealth Reflection
By Gary Gunderson FaithHealth is a young movement that brings the strengths of 21st century health science into relationship with the power and intelligence of the social structures of faith. For that matter, all of health science is a...
by Tom Peterson | Sep 16, 2016 | FaithHealth Community, FaithHealth Reflection, FaithHealth Stories
Emergency Department staff remembers “Robin” By Les Gura Staff members of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Emergency Department were hit hard in July when they learned about the death of a man they knew as “Robin.” Robin, who was homeless, lived...
by Tom Peterson | Aug 9, 2016 | FaithHealth Community, FaithHealth Reflection
By Gary Gunderson In about three months we’ll be in a new world. Whether our president elect is Mr. Trump or Secretary Clinton everyone in a position of public responsibility will find themselves in a bruised and disoriented body politic. From the new...