Shortly after his ordination, a home visit unexpectedly throws a new pastor in the deep end.
pastoral care
How can we accompany people through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death?
What use are boundaries when you’re sitting with a friend who is about to die?
Pastoral care that meets addiction at its source
Sonia Waters sees pain and trauma at the heart of this particular type of soul sickness.
The roller coaster, the marathon, and the deep end
The man turned in a visitor card. I pulled up my web browser.
The teenager told me she was down to her last option: a hanger.
Trauma survivors are in your congregation. How will you help them heal?
Christy Gunter Sim, a trauma expert and domestic violence survivor, offers case studies for church leaders.
Here he was: prostrate, limp, a huge tube going down his windpipe.
One person told me, “It’s the first time I’ve been in a church for 30 years, since that day.”
Take & read: New books in practical theology
Pastoral, prophetic, and political
Standing at the graveside with the last lingering family members, time seems thick.
Pastoral care in a neoliberal age
Bruce Rogers-Vaughn believes that modern capitalism isn't simply anti-government. It's also anti-human and anti-church.
If you have to choose between offering false hope and the truth, go with the truth.
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “door.”