Restating (a 3rd time). I am a missionary in the Philippines and teach missions courses. However, I also administrate a pastoral care and counseling center, and serve as a registrar for a pastoral counseling certification board here. For me, reconciling these roles is important. In my two previous posts, I brought up two issues. The …
Continue reading Resolving Pastoral Care and Missions (Conclusion)
As I noted before, I am involved in missions in the Philippines. I teach missions, but I also am the administrator of a pastoral care and counseling center, and I am the registrar for a pastoral counseling certification organization. The goals of missions and pastoral care are often quite different so I have wrestled with …
Continue reading Resolving Pastoral Care and Missions (Continuation)
I am a Evangelical Christian Missionary serving in the Philippines. I also serve as an administrator of a pastoral care center (www.bukallifecare.org) and serve as the registrar for a certification program for clinical pastoral education. There are at least three big concerns that seem to come up in the realm of pastoral care that can …
I have not heard the term... but I have seen the attitude. I was raised in a Separatist, fundamentalist tradition. I don't really have a problem with fundamentalism (Note I make a marked distinction between small "f" for fundamentalism and Fundamentalism. For me, the former says that certain matters are essential/fundamental and the rest are …
Most of the team did not stay up for the other films, but went to different houses to sleep. Five of us walked into the forest to a nice house on the hillside. There we slept on mats in the sweltering heat. Oh… did I mention the heat? Brutal! And it stayed hot into the …
I rode in Darwin’s SUV, which was built to handle some of the worst roads in the CAR. We arrived in Baguionas around 8AM. The jeepneys crossed the river, while we in the SUV parked on one side and took the suspended footbridge across. There is no Christian witness there. Most of the people are …
From Baguio to Baguionas and Back A Virginia Baptist in the Cordillera Mountains of the Philippines By Bob Munson (This was written in 2005... 10 years ago. Reminds me of how little I knew back then,... but still a good read.) The rickety old jeepney drove along a deeply rutted dirt road, working along the …
There has been a growing trend to raise up the importance of short-term missionaries. Nothing wrong with that, except that it has often been tied to a de-emphasis of long-term missionaries. Related to short-term missionaries has been the church's move toward short-term thinking. This has seen itself in the increase of "project missions." In this, …
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I had to write a Theological Integration paper for my Clinically Trained Minister certification for CPSP a couple of years ago. Looking back at it, I thought I would grab a section of it that spoke of metaphors for life and ministry. It is here below: Three metaphors for theology are important to me at …
Marriage of Religion and State Karl Marx did not invent the metaphor that religion is the opiate of the people, but he did popularize it. His view seemed to be that religion was a creation of the state to ensure compliance of the populace. I have not studied Marx enough to know fully how he …