Ten Memoirs By Faithful Women
When I was compiling the list of books for my “10 Books to Read in the First Five Years of Ministry” article, I got a lot of recommendations for memoirs. […]
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Pastoral Care with Persons with Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Interview with The Rev. MaryJane Inman
Although I work in a specialized setting of a state psychiatric hospital, when speaking to church pastors I sometimes recognize behaviors and problems they describe as having similarities to those […]
Ministering to Persons who Have Depression or Anxiety
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), depression and anxiety are the most common mental illnesses diagnosed in the United States. With almost a third of adults experiencing […]
Pastoral Care with People with Thought Disorders
For most church pastors, it can be intimidating to consider giving pastoral care to someone with a psychotic disorder, such as schizophrenia, or someone who is paranoid. People who face […]
Love and Limits: Pastoral Care for Persons with Borderline Personality
In seminary, one of my mentors said, “Beware the first person to introduce themselves to you in a new congregation—they’re probably borderline.” I’ve heard similar refrains in clergy circles ever […]
Mental Health Boundaries from a Recovering One-Year Pastor
I knew I had made a mistake as I sat in a COVID-distanced circle with my district superintendent and the five people I trusted most in my church to discuss […]
Trauma Informed Approaches to Pastoral Care (Interview With The Rev. Kerri Erbig)
As an Episcopal priest who has spent her entire career working full-time in psychiatric or medical hospital settings, I often find it difficult to translate my experiences and knowledge of […]
Fandom Religion
Sometime during the catastrophe that was 2020, my husband told me there was a new show we could watch. An American football coach goes to England to coach a professional […]
Peace is a Practice (Book Review)
In her book Peace is a Practice, artist and musician Morgan Harper Nichols posits that finding peace is not finding a state of being but rather joining a river flowing […]
