Charting the Course: My CPE Learning Goals

For my second unit of CPE, these are the three learning goals I’ve crafted for myself, in covenant with my peers and supervisors. They are written in alignment with the Objectives for Level II CPE, as outlined by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.

Holy families in unlikely places

Healthcare statistics on racial disparities in maternal outcomes suggest that not all families in our society are equally valued. What does this call forth in us, this first Sunday of Christmas, as we meditate on the Holy Family?

Something New

Coincidentally, my first post comes on the first Sunday of Advent, the start of the new Christian liturgical year. In church this morning we lit the first of four Advent candles, each a reminder and precursor of the greater Light that breaks through on Christmas, […]

God Touches Jeremiah's Mouth, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55596 [retrieved July 30, 2016]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterBibleJeremiah(cover).GIF.

Too Close for Comfort

This sermon was originally preached at Mission Hills UCC, January 31, 2016 Scripture readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 4:21-30 I love listening to stories of how people first heard their call, first understood what their life’s vocation would be. For most of us, I think, it’s less of […]