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Joshua Henry Narcisse
Rev. Joshua Henry Narcisse is director of spiritual care at Church Health and serves as parish associate at Idlewild Presbyterian Church. He is co-host of “The Mystic”, a monthly discussion forum hosted at Crosstown Concourse, and he lives in Downtown Memphis.
There are 13 articles by Joshua Henry Narcisse :
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November 2024
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Guest Columnists Narcisse: The art of letting go
“When patients meet with me on the edge of or amid crisis, my job is to help them to see that among the broken pieces, something remains. Often, that is the choice to let go.”
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September 2024
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Guest Columnists Narcisse: ‘Let’s grab a cup of coffee’
“Let’s bring the conflict of the comments section into a community that learns how to wrestle together, not to be right but to be helped.”
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August 2024
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Opinion Narcisse: ‘How can you continue to believe ... there is a God?’
“On Thursday, May 23, my wife, Kayana Reñeé Marks Narcisse, died. She was 32 years old.”
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May 2024
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Opinion Narcisse: ‘It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where our children are?’
“Accounting for the lives, time and experiences of the young people in our community is not the sole responsibility of parents. We are each responsible.”
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April 2024
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Opinion Narcisse: child homelessness is growing and that should concern us all
Far too many people, including children, in Memphis continue to end up on the streets, living in cars out of the parking lots of libraries and Walmarts and disappearing into the background of the hustle and bustle of this city.
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March 2024
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Opinion Narcisse: Guns to Gardens is something everybody can get behind
“I was under no illusions that this one event would stem the tide of gun-related violence in our city, but I showed up to move the needle on an issue that touches each of us.”
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February 2024
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Opinion Narcisse: Love is too crucial to commercialize
Opinion: When we make external human love the only source of love we receive, we are in dangerous territory.
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January 2024
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Opinion Narcisse: ‘Faith and Memphis go hand-in-hand’
“Communities of faith across this city remind us we are not alone and give us courage to hope together in the face of real problems and persistent hurts.”
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December 2023
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Guest Columnists Narcisse: Advent’s light glows for brighter days
“Heading into a new year, where much ahead lies unknown, the discipline of waiting on the light to break through in our personal lives, and in our community, is a lesson not just for the final days of December, but for each day that is to come.”
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November 2023
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Guest Columnists Guest Column: ‘Transitions refocus us on the task of whole-making’
“Transitions offer us time and again the opportunity to choose well how we will be and how we will respond to the world around us when we are not in charge.”
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October 2023
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Guest Columnists Guest Column: Memphis and all of us need ‘an economy of grace’
“I wonder, if we resist the urge to focus on the transactions and lean into grace, might we smooth our path forward into becoming a city where everyone is seen, heard, and cherished as a gift.”
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September 2023
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Guest Columnists Guest Column: ‘Our problems do not mean we are ... without hope’
“How do we describe our emotional response to the constant barrage that shapes so many days in Memphis? Weariness, that feeling that asks how we can keep enduring more of the same brokenness?”
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