Center on Religion & the Professions
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Dec. 30, 2008 – Two members of CORP’s Spirituality and Health research team were interviewed for a Dec. 30, 2008, article about the team’s research into links between spirituality and the brain.
Dr. Brick Johnstone, head of the team and a professor of health psychology at MU; and Dr. Daniel Cohen, a visiting professor of religious studies at MU, appeared in the article, “MU study links brain, spirituality.”
Dec. 1, 2008
COLUMBIA – The Missouri Foundation for Health has awarded a $50,000 grant to a coalition of local churches, community health professionals and MU to establish the Teen Relationship Education and Empowerment (TREE) program, a faith-based initiative against teen relationship violence. Columbia’s Broadway Christian Church submitted the grant for the coalition, with support from the Center on Religion & the Professions.
CORP-affiliated faculty member gives suggestions on cultural awareness during the holiday season
When planning this year’s holiday event, Robert Baum, associate professor and chair, Department of Religious Studies, says it is important to be inclusive and sensitive of the diversity of religious beliefs, whether hosting holiday parties at work or school.
Read more here: http://rcp.missouri.edu/articles/baum-holidaysuggestions.html.
Dr. Brick Johnstone, head of CORP’s Spirituality and Health research team, was featured discussing his research on faith and healing on the Nov. 6 edition of “Under the Microscope” on KBIA.
Bill Tam
meus, BJ ’67, longtime editorial page columnist for The Kansas City Star, has written a book, "They Were Just People: Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust," to be published by University of Missouri Press in 2009. Co-authored with Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn, the book is about Jews in Poland who survived the Holocaust with non-Jewish help.
Tammeus was a featured panelist at the CORP-sponsored presentation "The Life of Meaning: Finding and Reporting It in a World of Crisis" held Sept. 11, 2008, as part of the Missouri School of Journalism’s Centennial Celebration.
Read more about the book:
Tammeus wrote a daily column for about 25 years – ranging from humor to serious issues – as well as editorials about religious affairs. Since 2004, his column has appeared in the Star‘s Saturday Faith section. Though he retired in 2006, Tammeus, a past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, continues to write the Star’s weekly Faith section column on a freelance basis. He also writes a daily blog, "Faith Matters," about religious matters.
University of Missouri Press published Tammeus’ first book, "A Gift of Meaning," a collection of his columns exploring meaning among events he covered and experienced in his career and life, in 2002. Tammeus also has done freelance reporting for numerous publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Young Christians grappling with broadened political views
Columbia Missourian
CORP’s Spirituality and Health researchers learned in November that their article, “Determining Relationships Between Physical Health and Spiritual Experience, Religious Practices, and Congregational Support in a Heterogeneous Medical Sample,” was accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Religion and Health. Authors are: James Campbell, Dong Pil Yoon and Brick Johnstone.
COLUMBIA — People have long embraced prayer and faith as a way to pull themselves through illness. MU professor Brick Johnstone’s research is taking a scientific approach to faith, shedding light on the relationship between prayer and healing. Johnstone discussed his research Tuesday on CBS’s “The Early Show.” – Madoline Markham, Columbia Missourian
Read the full article: “MU professor discusses prayer, health on CBS Early Show“
Columbia Missourian
Oct. 24, 2008
Watch the video of the segment “The Power of Prayer ” (CBS)
See a posting “The Power of Prayer: Johnstone talks spirituality and health on CBS Early Show” on the website of the MU School of Health Professions
See press release
School of Health Professions Oct. 21, 2008
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Aug. 22, 2008 – Dean Nelson, who earned his master’s degree in journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1984, is publishing regularly on topics related to religion.
Nelson is the founder and director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, Calif. His latest book, on living the seven sacraments, is coming out with Brazos Press next year. In the book, Nelson draws from film, novels and his own experience to show how the sacred and holy can be experienced in everyday life.
His book, “The Power of Serving Others,” won the San Diego Book Award last year, and his work for San Diego Magazine took the top three magazine awards for investigative writing, feature writing and the Best of Show in July 2008. Nelson also has a Christianity Today article coming out this fall.
In addition to his M.A. from University of Missouri, Nelson has a B.A. in literature from MidAmerican Nazarene University in Kansas City and a Ph.D. in journalism from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Read more about Dean Nelson here.