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Toward a Wider View of Healing Missions

By Jim Ritchie | Healthcare missions suffers from a dichotomy of purpose. Is medicine alone an adequate motive as a ministry of compassion? Or are we wasting effort and money on the temporal body when we should be concentrating on the eternal soul? We need a broader strategic theology of healing missions. Might we find one that includes a wider spirituality of healing, including Hiebert’s “excluded middle?”

  • April 15, 2026
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Summary: Healthcare missions suffers from a dichotomy of purpose. Is medicine alone an adequate motive as a ministry of compassion? Or are we wasting effort and money on the temporal body when we should be concentrating on the eternal soul? We need a broader strategic theology of healing missions. Might we find one that includes a wider spirituality of healing, including Hiebert’s “excluded middle?”

By Jim Ritchie

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