The current series at Bible Hub, running Jan - April 2021 is: Love the Lord your God with all your Mind'.

11th Feb - Mind Your Mind : Learning to Love & Accept Self, John Partington

11th Mar (8am) - TBA, Karen Louis

08th Apr - TBA, Chi Boakye

All are welcome, particularly if new to or simply curious about the Bible.

Last month (Jan 2021) we heard from Joan Mankoo in her discussion on mental health and the church. This is an excerpt from the pre-reading she provided:

Love the Lord your God with all your mind. Love your neighbour as yourself.

WHY LOVE MATTERS AND THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN PROMOTING GOOD MENTAL HEALTH.

PRELIMINARY READING

In her book ‘Why Love Matters’ Sue Gerhardt states: ‘Emotional life is largely a matter of co-ordinating ourselves with others, through participating in their states of mind and thereby predicting what they will do and say. When we pay close attention to someone else, the same neurons are activated in our own brain; babies who see happy behaviour have activated left frontal brains and babies who witness sad behaviour have activated right frontal brains (Davidson and Fox 1992). This enables us to share each other’s experience to a certain extent. We can resonate to each other’s feelings. This enables a process of constant mutual influence, criss-crossing from one person to the other all the time. Beatrice Beebe, an infant researcher and psychotherapist, has described this as ‘I change you as you unfold and you change me as I unfold’ (Beebe, 2002)...