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Narrative Humility, Narcissism, and Congregational Conflict
Although humility has long been valued as a virtue in the Christian tradition, congregational conflict can be driven by the narcissistic needs of...
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The Well-Being and Resilience of Canadian Christian Clergy
Clergy play significant leadership, educational, and caregiving roles in society. However, burnout is a concern for the clergy profession, those they...
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Resilience Among the Religious During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of Catholic Sisters in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia
The COVID-19 pandemic affected many sectors of humanity across the world. Personal and organizational lives were affected by the pandemic in diverse...
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Who Cares? Exploring Pastoral Care in Dutch Protestant Parishes Using the Church Life Survey (CLS)
Pastoral care in parishes is a rather “silent” religious practice. As a result, data regarding the quantity and quality of regular pastoral care in...
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Living in the Aftermath: Spiritual Struggles of Hong Kong Christian Women Survivors of Sexual Violence
Spiritual trauma is one of the common outcomes for Christian women trauma survivors together with other psychological challenges (McNulty & Wardle in C...
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Systems and Psyches: a Pastoral Perspective on Nathan Carlin’s Pastoral Aesthetics
As a parish minister, the author puts Nathan Carlin’s correlational work between principlist bioethics and pastoral theology, Pastoral Aesthetics ,...
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Overcoming Spiritual Dryness: Transformative Processes Among Religious Brothers and Sisters in Germany
One should not regard the experience of spiritual dryness as an insurmountable obstacle in one’s spiritual journey; on the contrary, such periods can...
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Opening Doors to Resilience and a Gender-Diverse Pastoral Theology
A statistically significant group in the United States (conservatively, 6% of the population) is engaged in a migration away from prescribed gender...
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Existential Psychology and Religious Worldview in the Practice of Pastoral Counseling
A pastoral counseling approach is proposed in this article. The methodology investigates the relationships between religiosity, spirituality, and...
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Perspectives on Positive Psychology from Christianity
Christianity is the most widely practiced global religion. Christian philosophy and practices have recently gathered the interest of psychology...
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Collaborators for Change: Community-Village Leaders
Through the process of fa’afaletui, this chapter brings together knowledges constructed through Samoa’s collective houses of wisdom with cultural...
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The Mechanism Underlying the Relationship Between Positive References to God and Sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous in Poland
Spiritual struggles are common for religion-affiliated and non-affiliated individuals, religious skeptics, agnostics, and atheists. They gain...
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Changes in Faith: Sources of Increased Faith Among Norwegian Adults
This article offers an empirical approach to the field of conversion by addressing what contributes to increased faith. The material is based on a...
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Religiosity and Mental Health Among Young-Adults in Generation X from Emerging to Established Adulthood
This investigation examined how religiosity in the period of life ranging from emerging to established adulthood is associated with mental health. To...
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The Relationship Between Religiosity and Marriage From Emerging to Established Adulthood
This investigation examined the relationship between religiosity and marriage across a period of life marked by the transition from emerging...
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Matrices of Goals and Penalties: Revisiting the Need for Pastoral Care with Boys and Men
This article revisits the need for pastoral care with boys and men in contemporary societies. The author gives special attention to Rubem Alves’s (
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The Devil Is in the Details: How Clergy Tasks Became Stressors During COVID-19
COVID-19 presented a difficult environment for care workers, including clergy, as they sought to address human needs within an often-contentious...
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Burnout, Trauma Impacts, and Well-Being Among Clergy and Chaplains: A Systematic Review and Recommendations to Guide Best Practice
Religious leaders (i.e., clergy and chaplains) face unique, ongoing stressors that can increase risks for psychosocial and vocational...
