pastoral care

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.”

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As family configurations change, so does pastoral care.

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"A trans person's story has some unique elements, but the work of pastoral care remains essentially the same."

Mary Clark Moschella recommends the best recently published books in her field.

The woman looked at me with fear, pain, and trust—all things that the church has instilled in its faithful all these centuries.

One Sunday, I invited people to talk to us pastors about whatever troubled them. So after the service, I had no one to blame but myself.