FOR all but three years of my working life, I have been a hands-on, self-supporting parish priest and full-time academic theologian. In retirement, I still relish being a member of the clergy team at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Gibraltar, and at Hollingbourne, in Kent, as well as writing and editing publications in theology, and serving on bodies such as the BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee.
So the topic of faith and health is central to my life, both in the prayers for the sick that we offer every day at Holy Trinity, and in academic discussions about health-care ethics. But making connections between the two can be difficult.
Read Full Article »