More Mysteries, or, Why We Still Come to Church Anyway

(Excerpt) Two years ago, on a brilliantly sunny day in February, I spoke to a small session of this Institute on the subject of preaching. In an address entitled Behold I Tell You a Mystery: We Shall Not All Sleep, I attempted to initiate a discourse with clergy about preaching, in which the lay voice was not simply a mumbled sentence of praise or criticism given at the church door on Sunday morning, but was instead a participant in a more fully engaged meeting of minds and hearts. I commented at the outset on my claims to a purely lay status, since as far as I knew there had been no clergy in my family since the Civil War. However, I must stand corrected on that point. Mrs. Henrietta Stemmler, now 87 and a resident of Ft. Wayne, has written to tell me that as my grandmother\u27s cousin, she wishes to assure me that one of her sister\u27s grandsons is a Lutheran pastor in Texas, and so I do have a clergy relative after all. I was pretty well floored by this; revelations about one\u27s family background have a way of reordering the way you look at the world--witness Tarzan, Tom Jones, Oedipus, Moll Flanders and so on. So I come before you this time somewhat humbled from my previously proud, purely lay position. I am closer to being one with the clergy, however hard that is to swallow, and thus I cannot take the high and mighty tone that some people said characterized my last talk

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IN OUR OWN VOICE (LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS): EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF A CONSUMER-DELIVERED EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAM ON THE PUBLIC

poster abstractPsychoeducation programs can help correct misperceptions and offer hope about the ability of the mentally ill to recover. Consumer presentation programs, such as NAMI’s In Our Own Voice (IOOV), were designed in part for this purpose. The study used mixed methods to examine archival IOOV evaluations (n = 599) to understand: 1) viewers’ responses to the program in natural settings, 2) differences between consumer and nonconsumer viewers, and 3) the program’s ability to satisfy IOOV goals for audience members. Results indicate that the majority of viewers respond positively, with few differences between consumer and nonconsumer viewers. However, consumers more frequently reported personally relating to presenters while nonconsumers more frequently reported feeling educated by the program. Finally, IOOV is meeting its two program goals for audience members: edu-cating the public and offering a hopeful message of recovery. IOOV appears to be a valuable addition to recovery-oriented programming that is freely available to the public