Journal of Pastoral Counseling articles from January 1 2000

Journal of Pastoral Counseling archives from January 1 2000

Introduction.
January 1, 2000... The writing of pundits continues as the underlying meaning of the recent U.S. election of 2000 is analyzed and re-analyzed. Some of the voters claimed there wasn't much of a choice; major policy differences were kept out of the election. A...

On emptiness and closeness.
January 1, 2000... Distance Family therapists increasingly are using the ideas and language of movement to describe the many complex, interwoven patterns and reactions that exist in all families. This language is useful in teaching people that there are...

Self-emptying in Christian and Buddhist spirituality.
January 1, 2000... Introduction In Acts Luke narrates a dream by St. Paul during a dramatic crisis when Paul, Silas, and Timothy were "forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia"... "the Spirit of Jesus" prevented them from preaching in Bithynia...

What do you mean, "spirituality"?
January 1, 2000... I will, in this article, explore four life experiences against a selected theoretical/semantic backdrop of spirituality. Briefly, the four "episodes": 1. Leaving, in 1996, 21 years of work in secondary and higher education in order to...

Dialysis days.(Poem)
January 1, 2000... October: up at four-thirty-from bed to bathroom to kitchen, washes, eats, then slowly, button-by-button, dresses-only asks for help when she needs it, rarely does, then waits for the van. We walk down the stairs...

Dad's birthday (11/16/99).(Poem)
January 1, 2000... She waits for eye contact before shaking her head side to side, frozen, still in the street after two unsteady steps toward me. Dorothy and Esteban look on-I take her bag, lock the chair's wheels, help her gently off...

What do you want to do?(Short Story)
January 1, 2000... We discuss both death and dying as my father dies. Four years later, health-care proxy in place, DNR order signed and filed, on a more-or-less regular basis we review her wishes. No respirator-no extraordinary means. She tells me twice in the...

4:32 pm.(Poem)
January 1, 2000... Just after noon, December 15, Anne Marie and Marianela walk down to the cafe for some soup and coffee, I place my right hand on Mom's forehead, begin a Hail Mary in her ear, she nods yes, but can't find words...

And now.(Poem)
January 1, 2000... old photographs of you ten years before I was born reveal a young woman I never knew, searching for herself-Canada, Italy, Hunter College, the Paterno estate where your father took care-a young woman with fifty-five...

Understanding spiritual development through cognitive development.
January 1, 2000... In recent years researchers have produced extensive research in the area of cognitive development. Other researcher and scholars have paid increasing attention to spiritual development. The purpose of this paper is to explore the connection of...

Necessary illusions.
January 1, 2000... The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as of all serious endeavour in art and in science.... He who never had this experience seems to me,...

"Imploring pardon": the ethics of morality and the virtue of temperance in Shakespeare's Henry V.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... At first glance, Shakespeare's history play, Henry V, may seem a strange subject for any exploration of spiritual themes and values, a play which unabashedly celebrates patriotic fervor, martial heroism, and military might. The career of Henry...

Facilitation of aids bereavement support groups in African American churches: a case study.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Intensive follow up interviews were conducted with grief facilitators in an African American church one year after beginning an AIDS based church ministry. One aspect of their ministry included an AIDS bereavement support...

"He said, she said": a reflection on a conjoint therapy case from a pastoral perspective.
January 1, 2000... Abstract: This paper addresses the challenging and exciting task of conducting conjoint therapy from a pastoral perspective. Special attention is paid in dealing with unresolved family of origin issues of the couple, communication issues, and...

"As a seed in the cosmos": death and transformation in the intimate merton: his life from his journals: New York: Harper Collins 1999.(Thomas Merton)
January 1, 2000... Thomas Merton's ultimate vocation was to lose himself, to lose himself to God, to others, and to the world. Beginning with his earliest journal entries, Merton struggled with three principal realities: the inevitability of death and the...

Roland Rolheiser. The holy longing: the search for a Christian spirituality. NY: doubleday, 1999.
January 1, 2000... If you often find yourself bewildered by the diverse array of books on the subject of spirituality that currently fills the shelves of bookstores and are looking in the midst of it for a good guide to an authentically Christian spirituality,...

Reclaiming your story: family history and spiritual growth MERLE R. JORDAN: Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox 1999.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Sadly, many misfortunes can unfold from the family drama. Oftentimes intense personal hardship befalls an individual, and his or her emotional and spiritual development becomes frustrated. In essence, the quality of the relationship with...

Does the bible tell us so? Book review of god and the victim: theological reflections on evil, victimization, justice, and forgiveness.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ed. Lisa Barnes Lampman, Win. B. Eerdman Publishing Co., 1999 In the forward of the book, God and the Victim: Theological Reflection on Evil, Victimization, Justice, and Forgiveness, Charles W. Colson opens the book by explaining why there...