Healing Ground: The Church as Compassionate Community through the Healing Process of Grief Galen ... more Healing Ground: The Church as Compassionate Community through the Healing Process of Grief Galen Goben Doctor of Ministry School of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary 2019 The inevitability of death and the constant reconstruction of life required by loss subjects humanity to grief. The Church has too often failed to acknowledge and address this fact. Pastors are not trained adequately in grief and loss leaving them little to offer the bereaved. Pastors are forced to share platitudes and to abdicate their pastoral and teaching roles in the company of death and loss. Consequently, many bereaved persons feel isolated when support is most needed. Social support for the bereaved is vital. A compassionate presence providing comfort is often lacking. This project is designed to provide training in contemporary grief understandings to pastors and invested lay persons for the purpose of creating compassionate communities of healing. Forest Lawn is uniquely positioned to provide this trai...
Healing Ground: The Church as Compassionate Community through the Healing Process of Grief Galen ... more Healing Ground: The Church as Compassionate Community through the Healing Process of Grief Galen Goben Doctor of Ministry School of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary 2019 The inevitability of death and the constant reconstruction of life required by loss subjects humanity to grief. The Church has too often failed to acknowledge and address this fact. Pastors are not trained adequately in grief and loss leaving them little to offer the bereaved. Pastors are forced to share platitudes and to abdicate their pastoral and teaching roles in the company of death and loss. Consequently, many bereaved persons feel isolated when support is most needed. Social support for the bereaved is vital. A compassionate presence providing comfort is often lacking. This project is designed to provide training in contemporary grief understandings to pastors and invested lay persons for the purpose of creating compassionate communities of healing. Forest Lawn is uniquely positioned to provide this trai...
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