《天风》是我的良师益友

不知不觉中,已步入不惑之年的我,与<天风>杂志已有20多年的情缘了. 我清晰地记得,1981年夏,单县统战部召开全县基督教界人士贯彻落实党的宗教信仰自由政策的会议,我被特邀参加,会议期间,县教会牧长借给我一份刚刚复刊的<天风>,手捧<天风>,我如获至宝,一口气读完,心中像吃蜜似的甘甜.     

《天风》伴着我成长

每期的《天风》一到,我总爱不释手,先睹为快,一口气读完。感谢主,今年改版后的《天风》,呈现在读者面前的第一印象是：焕然一新、栏目丰富、版式活跃、装帧精致。《开卷有益》紧跟时代的节拍,《每月话题》关注焦点问题,《云彩见证》、《人在旅途》、《生命转角》给人启发思考,令人回味无穷。     

开卷有益赞《天风》

天吹清风葡萄园,开卷有益硕果满。福音活页使命传。人在旅途神相伴,     

享受《天风》

“热浪扑面的时节,觅一处清凉之地,泡一杯香茗,打开《天风》,享受那天上来的清风,一定惬意无比。”这是《天风》2009年第8期《编者的话》里一段沁人心脾的话,它很好地诠释了我此时的心情。     

天吹清风暖心田——菏泽市基督教《天风》征订会侧记

一年一度的《天风》征订工作拉开了序幕,作为基层教会的普通牧者,能有份于参与此项事工心中感慨万千,乐滋滋的无比甘甜。     

请订阅《天风》

保罗做了一件很不寻常的事,当时彼得在耶路撒冷作使徒,他教会的信徒都是犹太人,犹太人不与外邦人一同吃饭,最初是因为犹太人不吃不洁的牲畜,但后来渐变成犹太人一种带有优越感的传统习惯,以致看不起外邦人,认为他们是污秽的。彼得是使徒,当然明白在福音原理下并无犹太人与外邦人之分。在主耶稣里面,大家都靠他的恩典得救,本都是罪人,还有什么洁与不洁?所以他到安提阿时,也跟外邦人一同吃饭;但后来耶路撒冷教会的犹太人来了,他们习惯不与外邦人吃饭,彼得因怕那些犹太信徒,也就不跟外邦信徒一起吃饭了!甚至,连巴拿巴也跟着彼得,与外邦人隔开了。保罗一见他们所行的与福音真理不合,就在众人面前责备彼得,而且是非常严厉的责备。     

《天风》通讯员会议在沪召开

本刊讯：2008年8月27日,《天风》通讯员会议在上海召开。来自全国29个省（直辖市、自治区）基督教两会推荐的通讯员和《天风》编辑部的部分同工参加了会议。中国基督教三自爱国运动委员会主席傅先伟长老到会并发表了重要的讲话,秘书长徐晓鸿牧师和《天风》主编单渭祥牧师为受聘的通讯员们颁发了聘用证书。     

中国基督教唯一的公开发行刊物《天风》复刊

1980年10月20日,《天风》复刊了!这是中国基督教三自爱国运动委员会自改革开放后唯一一份公开发行的刊物。该刊于1945年由吴耀宗先生在四川成都创刊,先后经历两次停刊。第一次于1946年3月停刊,同年8月在上海复刊。第二次是从“文革”开始,《天风》被作为“牛鬼蛇神”而扫进“历史的垃圾堆”,从而被迫停刊。作为1980年10月中国基督教第三届全国会议后首份成果,《天风》的复刊对于中国教会向世界展示新的面貌,有着极其重要的意义。     

我与《天风》的四个小故事

我是《天风》长期的读者,从第一次看到《天风》至今已有33年;我也是《天风》的铁杆支持者,订阅《天风》至今也有27年;我还是《天风》殷勤的作者,从第一篇投稿《天风》至今已有25年.因此,《天风》是我灵程路上的良朋益友,是我读书的良伴与教牧工作的重要参照!我与《天风》有一个情结,愿与各位分享.     

《天风》特约撰稿人会议在沪召开

《天风》特约撰稿人会议于2012年2月23日召开,来自全国各地近20位同工参加了会议。单渭祥牧师主持,傅先伟长老出席会议并向特约撰稿人颁发了聘书。     

你跟从我来

利未,又称为马太,他是个税吏,为什么他因耶稣的一句话:“你跟从我来”就改变了自己一生的方向呢?他原来在地上是有工作的,且是很赚钱的工作,可以藉职权牟取私利,但耶稣来到他身边说:“你跟从我来。”     

Analyse me

The poem Analyse Me evolved from my desire to understand where and how the creative fitted into the scheme of military veteran mental health treatments in Australia. In 2016, as an Australian Army veteran and a creative writer, I undertook to conduct craft of writing workshops for veterans. However, I found creative arts, in all modes, were not as widely incorporated into treatments and research as I thought. The poem is a creative response to my frustration and disbelief of the results of my research and is a representation of my findings conceptualised to be the clinical and externally measurable treatment modes at one extreme, contrasted against the less definable use of the imagination or the creative at the other. The poem highlights the broad expanse between these extremes. It underlines a view on the difference of gender in treatment and the divide between the detached, clinical analysis and the more personal, intuitive creative response. Analyse Me does not deny the use of one modality over, or to the exclusion, of the other but rather indicates they both have purpose and can be mutually supportive and beneficial.     

Young children are intrinsically motivated to see others helped

Young children help other people, but it is not clear why. In the current study, we found that 2-year-old children's sympathetic arousal, as measured by relative changes in pupil dilation, is similar when they themselves help a person and when they see that person being helped by a third party (and sympathetic arousal in both cases is different from that when the person is not being helped at all). These results demonstrate that the intrinsic motivation for young children's helping behavior does not require that they perform the behavior themselves and thus "get credit" for it, but rather requires only that the other person be helped. Thus, from an early age, humans seem to have genuine concern for the welfare of others.     

You and me

Are there distinctively second-personal thoughts? I clarify the question and present considerations in favour of a view on which some second-personal thoughts are distinctive. Specifically, I suggest that some second-personal thoughts are distinctive in also being first-personal thoughts. Thus, second-personal thinking provides a way of sharing another person's first-personal thoughts.     

A physically handicapped teenager is helped to own her body

In this paper I am presenting my work with a 15-year-old girl, Nina, who was born premature with congenital feet deformities. Her twin had died at birth, and Nina spent eight weeks in a Special Care Baby unit. She had also suffered from bronchial asthma, which was under control during the months she was in therapy with me.

An attempt to overdose, and a letter she had written to a teacher, brought Nina to our services and to individual psychotherapy. The weekly sessions gave Nina the opportunity to elaborate her mourning for the dead twin and to face her physical problems more realistically. She had coped with these by idealising a beautiful body and giving it, in her phantasy, to her dead sister for whose death she felt responsible. Her identification with characters from horror stories, of which she was an avid reader, was a key to understanding how she felt trapped in her deformed body, to which she would refer in the phrase ‘It doesn't bother me.’ The working through of her feelings of guilt, anger, and envy enabled her to lessen the split and to own her body.     

To be me or not to be me: About alienation

This article is about the experiential side of the concept of alienation and its relations to the stress process in the context of work and organization. We distinguish two kinds of alienation: primary alienation, the experience or feeling that something is different from normal, and secondary alienation, the absence of an experience of or feeling about something abnormal. After having gone into everyday reality and how it can be so disturbed that alienation ensues, we go further into the experiences involved in both kinds of alienation and their positive and negative consequences. Secondary alienation is described as a common final path in the second stage of a human stress process. In the discussion, we pay attention to the social scientific tradition of alienation as result of an evil societal influence, which has turned out to be an unfortunate approach. Instead, we advocate an approach that conceives alienation as the outcome of a personal choice. Lastly we indicate shortly what can be done about secondary alienation.     

See me,hear me: Using film in health-care classes

This essay argues that film deserves a place within the medical humanities curriculum and demonstrates effective strategies for employing it within medical ethics and humanities classrooms. Part One of the article emphasizes how and why medical ethics teachers can utilize documentary and fictional films, such as “Thomas Szasz and the Myth of Mental Illness,” “The Deadly Deception,”Whose Life Is It Anyway? and “Voices From the Front” in their courses. Such films encourage students to move beyond abstract debates and confront the human pain inherent in all ethical dilemmas. Part Two focuses on documentary and fiction film in the medical humanities classroom. In this section, the author details how to incorporates films, such asThe Doctor, The Waterdance andHospital, into the humanities classroom, juxtaposing them with various literary works, such asOther Women's Children, Borrowed Time, andCeremony. Part Three of the essay presents a detailed discussion ofThe Elephant Man andFrankenstein, illustrating how visual and literary texts compliment each other within the humanities classroom. Overall, the author demonstrates how films function as engaging and complex visual texts providing unique insights in the particularities of American health care and, as such, can become valuable components within medical ethics and humanities classrooms.