Clinical Pastoral Education

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is a student-centered educational experience that draws upon the learner’s life and the learner’s ministry in order to enrich the growth, education, and work of the learner in ministry. The ministry context for the learner (i.e., the CPE student) is usually a hospital where s/he ministers to patients, families, and staff. The learner’s life experience and clinical experience come together to influence the learning so that the learner listens to both, draws from both, and becomes a more self-aware pastoral caregiver. The learner’s awareness impacts the learner’s ministry. This page and the posts on them are a trail of some of the impacts of CPE upon my ministry as a pastor and my life as a person. They are primarily from my days training to become a CPE supervisor.

Candidacy and Fatherhood, May 31, 2016

Candidacy and Fatherhood, May 26, 2016

It Was Fear That I Saw, May 20, 2016

What Are You Really Choosing, March 20, 2016

Stuff I’m Writing 3, March 18, 2016

Stuff I’m Writing 2, March 16, 2016

Stuff I’m Writing 1, March 14, 2016

Siblings by Choice, March 8, 2016

Differences in Worldview, March 2, 2016

Room for Grief, February 16, 2016

Dangerous Grief, February 14, 2016

Supervision Helps, December 22, 2016