Pastoral

The Christian life is filled with concerns and no place is more evident to find these than in the pastoral responsibilities God has entrusted to the leadership of the church. Satan has been working against the church from and early time causing this concerns to rise, but looking at the views Paul 's warnings in (2 Timothy 3) about the increase of apostasy in the last days and what we are witnessing today in the church, Paul 's instructions in (Him 1:3-7 are very significant. These instructions…

currency includes the addition of material related to Islamic culture and religions in several courses when TCMI expanded to offer courses in predominantly-Muslim regions. Many faculty members report numerous interactions in networks of scholarly and pastoral societies in their particular fields, interactions which enable them to update their courses as new information and theories emerge. This, along with their own documented scholarly production, assures the currency of course content. TCMI…

is very important that the lead pastor gather all information from the parties involved so the lead pastor can obtain a vantage point that is not obscured or bias. True pastoral counseling is crucial in this situation. As John Patton states, “In the light of a specifically Christian religious tradition, counseling that is pastoral can usefully be understood as the discovery or rediscovery of personal meaning, a sense of destiny and purpose, through relational humanness, the norm for which is…

Even though Johannes Brahms is ordinary well-known a master of symphonic genre, he composed only four symphonies in his life. Further, Brahms completed the symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, called “Ludwig van Beethoven’s tenth symphony” during around twentieth years from sketches since 1855. In the regard, the compositional process of the first symphony includes a long and mysterious history because of self-critical fastidiousness to make himself destroy his early works. On the other hand,…

Barbra J. Bono writes Mixed Gender, Mixed Genre in Shakespeare’s As You like It, is an article written on specific question she had while reading Shakespeare’s plays. Bono not only uses her own assumptions and predictions, but she also uses articles from others that help her support her ideas. She starts off the article by sating some questions she will answer and represent. The first question being “Does Shakespeare’s preoccupation, especially in the comedies, with strong female characters and…

Two Types of Nature in The Storyteller In the novel The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa, the author’s experience of visiting the Amazon Jungle in 1958 made a big impact on his writing. His visit was with the Institute of Linguistics to study the people in the jungle. On the journey, Llosa sees that nature can be helpful but also harmful for the tribal people. Nature is constructed in two different directions. In the beginning, Llosa writes about nature’s “time of abundance” that happens before…

The Commensurability of Different Vulnerability Imam Subkhan One of the chief argument from The Pastoral Clinic is that an ethic of care among the heroin addicts in Española Valley are possible emerge from a common and shared vulnerability. Garcia argues that the common experience of vulnerability of addicts in everyday life is the principle of commensurability in which become basis for an ethic of care such as in the form of watchfulness. She claims that ‘watchfulness’ is able “to offset…

Pastoral societies all though in the minority where societies of nomadic people who needed large grazing fields to support themselves. An example of a pastoral society is the mongols. In the 3rd wave of civilization pastoral societies took charge. The mongols gave rise to the largest land based empire in human history. Chinggis Khan came from humble beginnings…

species, from crocus to daisy, heralds new life after death. Unless a seed dies, God cannot give it a new body. When I was doing my first term of Clinical Pastoral Education at University Hospital in Saskatoon, SK, a World War Veteran was assigned to my care. He was missing limbs, disfigured by a mortar shell explosion. When I approached him as a pastoral visitor,…

Mabo: Has change occurred? Mabo v Queensland (No. 2) (1992) was a momentous court case that witnessed the legal doctrine of ‘terra nullius’ being classified as inutile in the High Court of Australia; a major step to reconciliation between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous, but how much impact does this case still have today from being brought into court 33 years ago? Nicholas Recchi reports. This year marks the 33rd year from May 1982, from when Eddie Koiki Mabo and four Meriam persons from the…