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Prayer is Excluded as a Form of Complementary Health Practice by Our Federal Health Agencies

February 11, 2025 By Dale Fletcher 5 Comments

Prayer is no longer considered a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practice by the National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), a federal government agency in the Department of Health and Human Services. It was removed in the 2007 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Federal Government, Health Care & Wholeness, Religion and Health, Spirit Mind Body Health, the research, Whole Person Health Tagged With: mind body spirit, prayer, spirituality and health, wholeness

Whole Person Health and Our Federal Government

May 11, 2023 By Dale Fletcher 2 Comments

whole person health - NCCIH

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is the Federal Government’s lead agency for scientific research on complementary and integrative health approaches. They have created a strategy to research Whole Person Health. On Friday, May 12th, 2023 at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Federal Government, Health Care & Wholeness, Public Health, Religion and Health, Spirit Mind Body Health, spirituality and health, the research, Whole Person Health Tagged With: mind body spirit, spirituality and health, the research, wellness, wholeness

Whole Person Care in the Local Church – A New Paradigm

May 4, 2016 By Dale Fletcher 2 Comments

Whole Person Care and the Local Church

This guest blog post was written by Dr Mike Soderling. Dr Soderling is Director for the Centre for Health in Mission(HIM) and co-Catalyst for the Lausanne Health in Mission Issue Network. His passion is seeing the global Church embrace Her full calling to ministries of health, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bible and Health, Church Health, Guest Blog Post, Health Care & Wholeness Tagged With: church health, whole person care, whole person health, wholeness

John Wesley: “Care for the Whole Person”

July 31, 2012 By Dale Fletcher Leave a Comment

John Maddox is a scholar on John Wesley, Founder of the Methodist denomination. Maddox is the William Kellon Quick Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School. Today's edition of Faith and Leadership, a monthly publication of Duke Divinity School, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith and Health, Health Care & Wholeness, wellness

Affordable Care Act Upheld by the Supreme Court. Obesity and the Church

June 28, 2012 By Dale Fletcher Leave a Comment

Obamacare has been largely upheld by the Supreme Court. The impact on corporations, the health care industry and individuals will be widespread. As the dust settles over the next several weeks, the affects will be more clear. One thing is certain. There will be an even greater … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health Care & Wholeness, obesity, Pastors & Ministry Leaders Tagged With: health care, obesity

Health Care You Can Live With – Nutrition, Emotion Management and Social Support

January 31, 2012 By Dale Fletcher 1 Comment

Again, here are my thoughts from reading Health Care You Can Live With by Dr. Scott Morris, founder of the Church Health Center in Memphis, Tennessee. The excerpts below are directly from Chapters 25, 26 and 27. Nutrition: Food is a Gift from God Fast foods, typically … [Read more...]

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