Volume 5.1 Fall 2019 – Healing

Everyone who lives experiences suffering. We all carry wounds, whether they be physical, emotional, or spiritual. Yet faith affirms that “there is a balm in Gilead, to make the wounded whole.” Music and the arts, prayer and worship, can touch our wounds and open the way to healing. This issue of The Yale ISM Review invites us to explore this reality. What is healing? What forms does it take? How can the arts help to heal our broken world?

We hope that you will find this issue both thoughtful and thought-provoking. If you like what you see, please share this publication with others! Subscription is free and open to all.

Rita Ferrone, editor
December 12, 2019

Welcome to The Yale ISM Review

• In This Issue
  Rita Ferrone
• On the Cover

As Creation Groans

• Looking Again: Reflections Among the Trees
  Karen L. Kilcup
• Congregations and the Healing of Creation
  Dorothy C. Bass

A Gift Received—and Passed On

• The Heavenly Physician: Jesus as Healer in Early Christian Art
  Lee M. Jefferson
• The Church’s Work of Healing: Prayer, Laying on of Hands, and Anointing
  Lizette Larson-Miller
• “Can These Bones Live?” Dancing with Skeletons in Unlikely Ballrooms
  Jill Y. Crainshaw
• The Healing for Which We Long and Labor
  Judith M. Kubicki, CSSF

Bridge Builders, Cultural Translators, Meaning Makers

• The Making of Street Symphony
  Vijay Gupta
• Liturgy in Hard Times
  Kathleen LaCamera
• For What and for Whom Do You Pray? Coercion, Consent, and the Healing of Ableism
  Rebecca F. Spurrier

One Final Note

• At the Hour of Our Death
  Lydia Dugdale