Pastoral counselors who provide premarital counseling must address the topics that are most relevant to couples as they prepare for marriage. This article presents the results of a survey of clergy who provide premarital counseling, demonstrating the relative importance that clergy ascribe to premarital counseling topics, as well as the relationship between religious affiliation and ratings of ...

The article, based on online observation data, analyzes the activities of Orthodox bloggers in modern Russian society conceptual framework theories secularization, post-secular and mediatization religion. authors identify main areas activity bloggers, specify forms their interaction with official confessional mass media, assess impact COVID-19 pandemic information policy Church. After pandemic,...

Abstract The praxis of reimagination explores the dynamic relationship between imagination, story, and praxis. Colonialism has greatly impacted African church’s imagination clerical authority. church needs to reimagine This requires a greater attentiveness story God’s redeeming love in person ministry Jesus. It also we recognize equal dignity co-responsibility laity clergy mission. While Christ...

As religious organizations contribute increasingly to community mental health, counseling by clergy acquires greater significance. As a result, clergy confront from time to time ethics challenges resulting from the need to balance a commitment to clients and an obligation to follow the requirements of religious doctrine. The recent New York case of Lightman v. Flaum highlights an example of thi...

Poor work-related psychological health and professional burnout remain issues of concern among clergy across denominations and across cultures. Maslach’s three-component model of burnout remains the most frequently employed conceptualization and measure in clergy research. Maslach proposes a sequential model of burnout. An alternative approach has been offered by the Francis Burnout Inventory t...

The transfer of psychiatric care from the institution to the community has presented community structures including faith-based organisations (FBOs) with an additional burden of care. In recent years there has been an increasing policy interest among government departments, public and non-statutory agencies for the inclusion of FBOs as partners in health and welfare services. However, despite t...

Growing concern about sexual abuse covers many kinds of perpetrators. Therapist and clergy abusers have been increasingly targeted, yet clergy counselors who sexually abuse their clients have so far largely escaped effective sanctions from the courts. This article identifies the justifications given by these courts, identifying and evaluating their supporting arguments. This analysis suggests t...

This study set out to examine the psychological type profile of Lead Elders within the Newfrontiers network of churches in the United Kingdom and to compare this profile with the established profile of clergymen in the Church of England. A sample of 134 Lead Elders completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales. The study shows that Newfrontiers Lead Elders display slight preferences for extra...

The courts have so far consistently refused to view misconduct by clergy counselors as constituting clergy malpractice. However, they have increasingly come to view it as a breach of fiduciary duty. More recently, they have also begun to differentiate between the secular and religious aspects of clergy counselors' work. The case discussed in this article (Sanders v. Casa View Baptist Church) pr...