Wilson's pastoral reflections, combined with a searching account of his own personal struggles regarding the issue, shape this book more powerfully than do his theological and biblical arguments.
Nicaragua In Nicaragua in 2010 UNICEF partnered with the Theological and Social Research Centre and Acción Medica Cristiana to promote theological-pastoral reflection on the HIV epidemic.
She has years of service at the altar and in the pulpit, but hers is not a book of pastoral counseling or personal reflection on tragic loss like Rabbi Howard Kushner's "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" or C. S. Lewis's "A Grief Observed".
Right?" "Pastor and pastoral," he went on.
"The Housatonic at Stockbridge" turns a sentimental, pastoral poem into a profound reflection on identity.
Let's make this Lent both a pastoral and prophetic season of reflection and action.
Their response springs from philosophical and theological reflections as well as from a vast range of pastoral experience and a profound sense of compassion.
The state had bought 800 acres of rolling hills, scenic vistas and prime farmland from several Newtown sources in 1929 to accommodate Connecticut's need for a third major mental hospital in a pastoral setting, based on the prevailing treatment philosophy of the time, which emphasized reflection.
In another reflection of how climate change and degradation of meadows eroded the Norses' pastoral economy, yarn found in the weaving room indicates that the weavers stretched their wool supply by mixing sheep wool with fur from caribou, polar bears, foxes and wolves.
Males in the 30 50 year age group had the highest incidence: this is probably a reflection of the exposure through occupation of males to livestock in a pastoral economy where females are less exposed to livestock in their domestic duties [ 30, 31].
"We acknowledge that whilst issues of human sexuality are not resolved, there are couples living in other lifelong committed relationships who deserve the welcome, pastoral care and support of the church and we are committed to further listening, prayerful reflection and discernment regarding same-sex relationships," it said.
