by Michael | Mar 20, 2016 | Clinical Pastoral Education, Quotes, Reading
No one creates your feelings. No one is to blame for your situation. You are the author of your condition. Whatever you have been doing is what you are really choosing, whether or not you consciously want it. The alternative is to see yourself as a victim of people or...
by Michael | Feb 1, 2016 | Clinical Pastoral Education, Faith-Related, Quotes, Reading
In a day I spend time working with three people: participants in mission at church; patients in a hospital setting, usually in medically intensive situations; and students preparing for continued ministry. All of those people are experiencing some thing in life that...
by Michael | Dec 31, 2015 | Clinical Pastoral Education, Faith-Related
I have to send a letter of intent to sit before a committee soon. The template is on one of my desks. I see it everyday since I printed it out as a reminder that sending the letter is an important step in one of my growth processes. It’s a simple form, but...
by Michael | Nov 29, 2015 | Clinical Pastoral Education, Faith-Related, Quotes, Reading, Writing
I appreciate that my training in clinical pastoral education is giving me reason to enter into a beautiful reading list. I’m covering by necessity pastoral arts, theology, history, and supervision. I’m spending my time becoming a better minister, a slower...
by Michael | Nov 17, 2015 | Clinical Pastoral Education, Quotes, Reading, Relationships, Writing
An epistemology is a way that we know. It is about how we know what we know. The Reflective Practitioner focuses on the ways in which professionals of varied sorts know and do. Schon is offering an alternative to the “traditional epistemology of practice.”...
