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When I left local church ministry almost forty years ago to return to graduate school and become a family therapist, my father the preacher was visibly wounded. “Son,” he said, “I am disappointed to see you leaving the ministry.” I replied, “Dad, I am leaving church work to enter the ministry.” In the event that my father and I have offended clergy or counselors present, let me share two factors that influenced that brief dialogue: 1. My Dad had made psychologists the target of many sermons. 2. I had ended up in an administrative position in a large urban congregation and felt far removed from those I felt called to serve. Full Story »
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There are many kinds of depression and I believe it is best to view depression on a continuum from “mild case of the blues,” which we all experience from time to time, to the other end where depression is a deep, pervasive and potentially lethal condition. There is not time or space to cover the entire spectrum of depression but I would like to focus first on the kind of depressive moods we experience during bereavement or grief and then move to the other end of the continuum describing a more severe kind of depression. Full Story »
Some of the questions certain to be raised when the death of a Christian appears to be self-inflected are whether or not it constitutes a sin and what are the consequences in this world and the next. I will leave this dialogue to the theologians with one word of caution: Anyone who claims to understand fully the mind of God is providing evidence of his or her own spiritual immaturity. And the psychologist who claims to understand the human mind is providing evidence for the limits of his/her own. Full Story »