In my denomination (the United Church of Christ), the process toward ordained ministry includes goals in education, field experience, individual and collective discernment, prayer, and continual review of a candidate's understanding of church, theology, sacraments, polity, etc.
After 11 years of prayer and careful discernment, I experienced a moment of clarity in 2013.
His clinical discernment and immense experience with thousands of patients suffering from manic-depressive illness prompted him to emphasize the crucial importance of ECT as well as lithium and other modern medicinal treatments Kukopulos et al. (1977).
(He's also seen reciting those texts into the camera from behind bars; Gerima films the experience of his incarceration with a calm, aestheticized discernment that crystallizes its horror while avoiding expressionistic clichés).
Putting together facts, research, personal experience -- and having an open-heart -- creates discernment.
As we shall see, Heidegger is indeed describing his experience of Van Gogh's painting (an experience grounded phenomenologically in his discernment of the figure of "the little old woman" emerging from the shoe on the right).
That relationship was a historical tradition especially prominent among the Desert Fathers, who defined the qualifications for acting in the role of a spiritual father: personal experience; an interior life; purity of heart; the vision of God; insight; inspiration; discernment.
However, in this community of prayerful discernment we didn't want to baptize the kids, and make the experience feel exclusive in any way.
He's the cinema's great master of sentimental discernment — of the burden of mighty and tangled feelings, of a lifetime of experience, converging in a simple moment of decision, of life and death weighing on a yes or no, a step in one direction or another.
In that case, please raise your glass to the discernment and probity of the people of New Hampshire.Running for President of the United States is an unusual experience: invigorating, fatiguing, flattering and humbling in equal measure.
