Saturday, October 14, 2006 10 AM
Healing as Holy Practice
Healing, Anne Brower finds, moves us into closer communion with God, closer to the Reign of God and closer to understanding the divine within us. In her book I Am Not Ready to Die Just Yet, this Episcopal priest and physician tells stories of the faith and heroism of ordinary people living with, through, and beyond disease to a newly whole and vibrant life.
A cancer survivor, Brower will share her own journey through disease and illness to become whole in mind, body and spirit. In this course, she will illustrate the crucial distinctions between disease and illness. You will have opportunities to consider the efficacy of prayer, the necessity of touch, the importance of faith, the influence of community and the creation of sacred space to bring about healing.
Proceeding from the premise that we all are called to participate in healing others, Brower will articulate her insights into the comfort and peace of the Christian healing rite, the role of healers as conduits for closer communion between God’s children and God, the essentiality of healer confidentiality and the joy and enrichment engendered by the healing sacrament.
About the Rev. Dr. Anne C. Brower
The Rev. Dr. Anne C. Brower is senior chaplain and director of the Healing Ministry at Washington National Cathedral. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and was honored in 1997 by the American Association of Women Radiologists as “The Most Outstanding Woman Radiologist” in the nation. Her most recent book is I Am Not Ready to Die Just Yet: Stories of Healing.