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Inoculation Through Creating Common Wisdom Narratives

Saturday April 17, 2010 7:29 +0000 ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅ Rev. David

I am fascinated with how we human beings create narratives or stories, and then derive our meanings from them. In politics, this manifests in several different ways, one of the most obvious being how a “narrative” is created by any successful candidacy for high political office (Obama the Reformer, McCain … Read more →

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Emotion, Reason, and Pastoral Care

Sunday April 11, 2010 9:48 +0000 ⋅ 2 Comments ⋅ Rev. David

I want to posit a few aspects of my theory of the primacy of human emotion. The purpose for this article is that I am currently developing, as a part of my Clinical Pastoral Education Residency, both a theory and theology of Pastoral Care. I am well aware that this … Read more →

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