Dancing with wisdom - chapter 9
Chapter 9 - YOUR WISDOM QUEST
We are caterpillars longing to become butterflies.
When I studied medicine, I knew nothing about coaching. I had been trained to work with what has been called ‘the medical model’. In many respects, it is very useful: disease and illness do need treating. However, it is not the only way to look at life and the significant problems and challenges that we face. There are also therapists, counsellors
Dancing with wisdom - chapter 8
Dancing with wisdom - chapter 7
Dancing with wisdom - chapter 6
Dancing with wisdom - chapter 5
Dancing with wisdom - chapter 4
Dancing with wisdom - chapter 3
Gorman Romans 9 11
9:1–11:36 GOD’S FAITHFULNESS AND MERCY AND THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL
The gospel that Paul—often called the apostle to the gentiles—preached was first for Jews and “also” for Greeks, or gentiles (1:16). But Paul found that many of his fellow Jews, not unlike himself at one time, rejected the good news of God’s saving work in Jesus the Jewish Messiah. At the same time, many gentiles were coming to faith, often because of the work of Paul and his associates.
Nurturing hope: Christian pastoral care in the twenty-first century, chapter 9
Chapter 9: Listening Skills
MY MOTHER remembers an incident when the priest in her parish was heading out of town, and he asked her to take communion to a woman in the hospital who was dying. The patient was quite young, in her thirties, and her husband was there in the hospital room with her. Mom greeted the couple, pulled the door closed, chatted very briefly, and began the communion liturgy. A few moments into the communion service, someone knocked on the door. Mom answered, and it turned out to be a man with a name badge saying "Chaplain."
Pastoral Theology, chapter 5
Chapter 5: The Fragility of Life; Attachment, Trauma and Loss
The joys of love and the pains of grief both touch the essence of what it means to be human. For pastors who are learning what it means to care, few things could be more important than to reckon with these two perennially mysterious aspects of human experience. In this chapter, we shall turn our thoughts to the tragic dimensions of human frailty and finitude, searching out what kind of theological resources might enable a ministry of healing. Our focus will be on the immensely tender encounters with suffering, grief and loss which cry out for pastoral kindness and wisdom.