Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is a student-centered educational experience that draws upon the learner’s life and the learner’s ministry in order to enrich the growth, education, and work of the learner in ministry. The ministry context for the learner (i.e., the CPE student) is usually a hospital where s/he ministers to patients, families, and staff. The learner’s life experience and clinical experience come together to influence the learning so that the learner listens to both, draws from both, and becomes a more self-aware pastoral caregiver. The learner’s awareness impacts the learner’s ministry. This page and the posts on them are a trail of some of the impacts of CPE upon my ministry as a pastor and my life as a person.
Candidacy and Fatherhood, May 31, 2016
Candidacy and Fatherhood, May 26, 2016
It Was Fear That I Saw, May 20, 2016
What Are You Really Choosing, March 20, 2016
Stuff I’m Writing 3, March 18, 2016
Stuff I’m Writing 2, March 16, 2016
Stuff I’m Writing 1, March 14, 2016
Siblings by Choice, March 8, 2016
Differences in Worldview, March 2, 2016
Room for Grief, February 16, 2016
Dangerous Grief, February 14, 2016
Supervision Helps, December 22, 2016
Living the Intersection, November 29, 2015
The Reflective Practitioner, November 17, 2015
Counseling & Psychotherapy of Religious Clients, October 13, 2015
Ready, October 9, 2015
Supervisory Education Student Training, September 27, 2015
The Blessed Child, August 11, 2015
Apologies, Reflection, Apologies, August 6, 2015
History of Pastoral Care in America, July 28, 2015
From a Book I’m Reading, July 20, 2015
Stories of God, July 12, 2015
Cost in Human Dreams, July 8, 2015
Prayers, May 20, 2015
Listening Is, April 26, 2015
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions, April 16, 2015
Valuable Spiritual Possessions, March 12, 2015
Public Process Notes, March 2, 2015
Last Breaths, January 17, 2015
Advent Post #24, December 23, 2014
Advent Post #20, December 19, 2014
Considerations on Peace From Howard Thurman, November 28, 2014
I’m Still Scared, November 25, 2014
Nudge Toward Self-Scrutiny, November 17, 2014
Why Pastors Should Take CPE (2 of 2), November 5, 2014
Why Pastors Should Take CPE (1 of 2), November 2, 2014
Cognitive Routes Toward Empathy, October 21, 2014
The Dumb Comfort of Your Presence, October 7, 2014
Clinical Pastoral Education, September 13, 2014
Blog Break, September 9, 2014
Pressing Pause, November 8, 2013
Intersections 