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When the storms come, it’s time to remember who is mighty.

As I’m working on this course, I want to make helpful assignments. One is to think about praying. And I realized that this may be helpful to readers of 300 words, too. +++ I am an extemporaneous pray-er. I can simply, together with a family, start talking to God. And laugh in the middle as […]

Rich Dixon’s asking important questions: +++ After meeting with a group of pastors at Carbondale’s Heartland Christian Center, our host told us we’d meet later with the Carbondale High School soccer team. I’ll admit…I was a bit intimidated when I discovered both boys’ and girls’ teams were present, but I’d been invited to give a […]

When I started building my course structure for the pastoral care course the other day, I started thinking about problems. What are the problem situations where people “need” a pastor? I put need in quotes. Many people have no ongoing felt need of a pastor. Sometimes they feel a need for a chaplain, thought that’s […]

I’m building a course for the fall. MIN 440: Theory and practice of pastoral care. I’ll be teaching on-line, asynchronous, over seven weeks. Academically, I feel woefully unprepared. As a chaplain, people sometimes ask me, “where did you get your theological training.” And I smile and say, “I don’t have any.” There are a couple […]