by Michael | Mar 16, 2016 | Faith-Related, Writing
When I started the supervisory education program in CPE, I noticed that there were hardly any meaningful trails about the process on the internet. I decided to write through my process. So I have some “public process notes” on the blog in order to keep track of some...
by Michael | Mar 14, 2016 | Faith-Related, Writing
When I started the supervisory education program in CPE, I noticed that there were hardly any meaningful trails about the process on the internet. I decided to write through my process. So I have some “public process notes” on the blog in order to keep track of some...
by Michael | Mar 10, 2016 | Faith-Related, Writing
I’ve been spending a lot of my edge time editing. Edge time is time that I have on the edges on my schedule. Frankly there isn’t much. But every few years I get to edit something meaningful. I’ve been working on someone else’s stuff while also writing a few things of...
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 19, 2015 | Faith-Related, Reading, Writing
Having been outside the mainstream for years, African American churches have learned valuable lessons that have given special meaning to spiritual practices and ideas. White Christians may be familiar with them in theory, but to know them from the underside, from the...
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.”...
