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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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“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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Yes, Tell Your Story—The Bible Tells You So
Abraham is the patriarch of our faith. What we rarely mention, however, is that he also trafficked his wife twice and impregnated a teenage Egyptian...
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Theology, Trauma, and the Space Between
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks...
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