Theology of relational care

There are a wide variety of community service options that benefit different communities in many ways. Working at the Good Samaritan Inn and Mercy Gardens was a service learning opportunity that benefitted a large amount of people. The Good Samaritan Inn is an organization that provides food to feed the hungry people of the Decatur area. The Good Samaritan Inn serves approximately 300 people every day of the week. Mercy Gardens is a non-profit organization that grows healthy, organic food that will be used to make meals for the hungry at the Good Samaritan Inn. Along with providing food to the hungry, Mercy Gardens also provides opportunities for low-income Decatur residents to learn about gardening and to get real work experience. These citizens work at Mercy Gardens planting produce, while doing this they learn techniques and practices in organic farming that will aid them in finding reliable jobs in the future. As a class we volunteered our time to help allow Mercy Gardens to operate more efficiently in the upcoming winter months. With snowfall on the horizon it is always a challenge to plant crops in the dead of winter. This year Mercy Gardens was dedicated to finishing their green house and hydroponic tables so fresh produce could be grown and served year round. The green house needed much work including building and painting the hydroponic tables, and pouring gravel down for the floor material. Some other work that was done to benefit the Gardens was harvesting crops,…

In other words, it is the teaching and knowing of the Word so that we can be transformed more like Christ. The second definition of spiritual theology is a spiritual discipline in an attempt to integrate scriptural teachings on sanctification and empirical study of Holy Spirit’s actual work. Empirical study includes the actual experience of the Holy Spirit’s doing in regards to sanctification. • Spiritual theology is essential to the development of a theology of spiritual formation because…

Basic Introduction: Process theology is defined as “a contemporary expression of Christian faith.”(5) Though the word, “contemporary expression” can have different connotations, in my view, according to one’s understanding and perspective it lets the reader contemplate on the idea about how one’s personal understanding can, or is a part of one’s course of action. Pointing to the word “expression,” one can also perceive the inclusion of orthopraxis, (Dancing with God, 34) which further leads one…

theological perspectives in the Wesleyan tradition. With each essay covering a different aspect of the pastoral ministry, Pastoral Practices helps create a more wholistic understanding of the complexity of the demands of the pastoral office. Wesleyan theology offers a rich foundation upon which pastors can shape their pastoral practices rooted in scripture, tradition, reason, and experience. Particularly encouraging is the rich understanding of the wholistic approach to pastoral care and…

Mothering of children is necessary since no human being can survive or become a part of social community without moderate amount of care by a mothering person (Kittay, Sarah Adams). Mothering, as a social act, is the foundation of human society. Also, mothering is joyful experiences for parents in many ways. However, when mothering gets associated with, or only with, gender politics, the fact that we are always “some mother’s child”(Kittay, Love’s Labor) is easily forgotten and the mothering…

enriched and enhanced? With these concerns in our mind, we shall now reflect on pornography under the following points. All Human relationships are based on virtues of faithfulness and loyalty to each other with the sense of belonging to one another. The concept of faithfulness, key to relational fabric and success, is alien to pornography. Also, love, care and constant fellowship are the characteristics of relationships which are completely missing in pornography. Pornography is concerned only…

Thus, Johnson further argues, that in the universal category whereby all humans share commonalities are: biologically, we are fundamentally similar; socially, we require certain relational prerequisites; psychologically, we all experience similar developmental processes; and “spiritually, all human beings seek some form of connection with the transcendent.” So, in a multi-cultural setting, while we must strive to understand and relate with other’s from different cultural backgrounds, for…

The human soul is where the image of God is and God’s Holy Spirit takes possession of the human soul, as well as shapes the human soul, which reflects Christian counseling. Hawkins and Clinton stated that these multiple elements are considered part of the New Christian Counselor and these elements require our attention. These unique resources are a covenant between a care giver, a care seeker, and a care provider (the counselor, the client, and God). All three are what Hawkins and Clinton…

I liked Rubio’s (2003) reference to the Catholic tradition of encouraging families to ask: “What, ultimately, are we about?”(p. 185). Rubio then goes to discuss two important types of love. She refers to the love between family members as intimate passion, and the sentiment towards justice in the world as social passion. Research supports the common belief that feeling lonely is damaging to the human being. In a theoretical and empirical review of the consequences of loneliness, Hawkey and…

creation of man and woman. Although the first relationship in scripture was God and Adam, Adam had a desire for relationship with his own kind, “but for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him (Gen. 2:20b).” God created Eve as a helper. One commentary explains the relationship between Adam and Eve this way: God decided to make a helper suitable (lit. “a helper corresponding to him,” or “a corresponding helper”) for the man (v. 18). The essence of the word corresponding is that Adam…