Pastoral care

Article Mother's Day Worship: Plan with Sensitivity
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on May 6th, 2013
Mother’s Day is one of the unofficial “high holy days” of the church calendar. Like Christmas and Easter, the second Sunday in May often brings in visitors the…
Article Family Concerns: When to Refer
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on April 19th, 2013
Many seminarians in their introductory Pastoral Care class hear this cardinal rule for any counseling work they will do in their capacity as a congregational leader: Know when to…
Article Listen Up
- By Boyce Bowdon
- Posted on March 21st, 2013
One evening in 1953, a Methodist lay speaker phoned me, said he had a bad cold, and asked me to preach for him the following Sunday. I was 18. Three months earlier I had made my…
Article Bullies in the Church
- By Todd Outcalt
- Posted on March 18th, 2013
Because my wife is a middle-school principal, I often hear stories about the school bullies. In fact, bullying has become a major point of conversation in the past decade, and…
Article Faith Formation in a Digital Age
- By Julie Anne Lytle
- Posted on March 1st, 2013
The beginning of the twenty-first century marked a technological move to web 2.0 in 2004 and a corresponding social turn toward improved applications of relationship-cultivating…
Article Review: The Judas Syndrome
- By Eric Van Meter
- Posted on January 18th, 2013
With his latest book, The Judas Syndrome: Why Good People Do Awful Things, therapist and author George Simon tries to explain why people do bad things, and how to deal with the…