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Me:  How did your wife choose to go to grad school for marriage & family therapy and pastoral counseling? Him: Well, she wanted to be able to care for people.  But then she realized that pastors don’t really care for people.  So she decided to just do the counseling part.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about vows, the kind that we intentionally make in order to publicly recognize  and announce commitments to one another.  In the next few days I’ll talk more about this, but I wanted to start just by asking you – what vows have…

One of my pastors, Colleen Echohawk-Hayashi, has created another blog – this one called Indigenous People Matter.  I encourage you to check it out and add it to your feed reader or bookmarks list! Here’s how she describes the site:  This site exists to be a central place for Indigenous…

For my friend Justin…