The Healing Image
By Lawrence E. Green, MAR, MA, MBA, PhD (MAR, 1972) Competent professionals always work from a template or image of what “could be” for those they serve. A counseling approach based on relativism, or the premise that any template is as good as another, is incompetent. Seasoned counselors know that a good template can often […]
Good Grief: Soundings, Part Seven – Wisdom for Consoling
January 31, 2012 By Ben Witherington One of the most obvious things that happens to a person in deep grief is that they become hyper-sensitive, even to things that previously never bothered them. Sounds in the night. Sudden winds whipping up. Or thunder and lightning, a child crying out in the neighborhood, an unexpected […]
Unfinished Business
by J. Ellsworth Kalas When the apostle Paul urges us to imitate him as he imitates Christ, I’m ready to get in line as an earnest imitator. Nevertheless there’s a place where I have to part company with him. It’s during his rousing valedictory to Timothy when, in the language of the King James Version, he declares, […]