A Talk on "Healing versus Curing" by Prof. John Swinton
7 June, 2026 1:00pm
Join us for a talk on "Healing versus Curing" by Prof. John Swinton, Sunday, 7 June, 1-2pm, 2/F Chapel.
Dr. Swinton will be sharing with us the difference between simply treating symptoms and the deeper work of restoration—what it means to be brought back into connection, friendship, and community.
In the church, we’re not merely looking for someone to be fixed or a situation to be diagnosed. We’re invited to offer holy friendship: to remember that Jesus—fully God and fully human—suffered with us and for us, and that His healing restores our identity.
Healing returns us to who we are before the Lord—daughters and sons of God. Come and receive a thicker, more compassionate vision of one another, where every person is more than a label and every story has room to be witnessed, believed, and loved back into wholeness. Sign up below.
About the speaker:
Prof. John Swinton is a Scottish theologian and former mental health nurse currently based at the University of Aberdeen. As a practical theologian, he specializes in the intersection of theology, mental health, and disability. His research focuses on how Christian theology engages with profound intellectual disability, dementia, schizophrenia, and other mental health conditions, offering theological perspectives on suffering, personhood, and vocation. He is an author and speaker, having written extensively on the theology of mental health, including works like Dementia: Living in the Memories of God and Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefulness, and Gentle Discipleship.