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“Our identity is somehow found in not usually knowing who we are, in not always knowing what we are doing. Our identity is sometimes found, as Jesus himself professed, in its occasional loss.”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
“The other conviction or intuition of the New Testament about healing is seen positively—that real healing is of the “spirit,” when spirit is understood to mean very much the same thing that we mean today when we speak of a whole person.”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
“The Midwife KAREN R. HANSON1 (1996) My ministry as a [hospital] chaplain [in] a Level One trauma center is intense and challenging. Our department responds to all critical cases that come into the Emergency Department, as well as critical incidents and deaths that occur throughout the hospital. [This] work requires a solid sense of identity and purpose. For me, the image of minister, or chaplain, as spiritual”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
“The ultimate goal of shepherding, like that of communicating and organizing, is to relate the gospel to the need and condition of men. Each is called on according to the nature of the need, not according to the subjective preferences of the one we call pastor. 2”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
“Hence for him, every patient has the potential to become a “living human document” to the minister or seminary student.”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
“Those within the web who have not yet spoken must speak for themselves. Gender, feminist, and black studies all verify the knowledge of the underprivileged, the outcast, the underclass, and the silenced. If knowledge depends upon power, then power must be given to the silenced.”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
“The New Testament intuition was this: That which is central and crucial about the person, or the total spirit, is always larger and deeper than the negativities that may adhere to him. Whatever demons may be, they are not all of him.”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
“who have a lightness of touch, an informality based on amusement at their own ineptitude, bring the simplest of gifts to others—the releasing power of laughter.”31”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
“By contrast, the first step of those in the “second culture” is to affirm their own realities as worthy of equal respect.”
― Images of Pastoral Care
― Images of Pastoral Care
