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Men Who Buy Sex, Part 2: Buying (and Watching) Sex—It’s Not About Sex
In Part 1 of Men Who Buy Sex, Jay Stringer discussed the idea that it is not only women sold for sex who are trafficked...
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Part 2 of this series, coming Thursday, February 5, will address how power and control dominate the lives of men who buy sex. This post originally...
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The Story of the Prodigal as Therapeutic Frame: Part Two
In Part One of this article, Andrew Bauman introduced the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15 as a lens for the therapeutic encounter,...
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The Story of the Prodigal as Therapeutic Frame: Part One
“In these days of increasing addictions, we have wandered far away from our Father’s home. The addicted life can aptly be designated a life lived...
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Moving into Grief
I am in the middle of moving, over Christmas, with a one-year-old baby, and I don’t wanna. I mean, I do—it is an amazing gift...
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The Lightness of Being
I heard the car drive up our gravel driveway. Mia, my wife Becky as she is known by our grandchildren, and Elsa, my darling two-year...
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Five years ago this Advent, I was assigned a new client at a community mental health facility for severely traumatized and chemically dependent individuals. The...
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I often miss God when I fail to see what is right before my eyes. I know better but I often fail to live in...
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