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| May 13, 2019 |
These were the questions that prompted by Doctor of Ministry project and subsequent paper. Below is the abstract from the paper. My hope is to pull out pieces of this paper to post here at this blog. Eventually, a book may emerge but for the moment, you will find here posts to help you reflect on the Biblical mandate to love God with our whole selves.
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Abstract
Clergy person are not healthy in wholistic** ways. This
paper examined whether pastors who engage in examining their own health through
a wholistic framework while also establishing or strengthening a health
ministry within in their congregations would increase their self-care. The
pastors participated in a Day Apart and/or a covenant group. Their health measures were compared to those
who did not participate in anything. The
analysis suggests that pastors who participated in covenant groups and the day
apart did increase their health measures while the connection to congregational
health ministries was not clearly established.
*“wholy” is intentionally spelled in this manner to
combine the words “holy” and “whole.”
**The word “wholistic” is
intentionally used throughout this paper.
“In health ministry, the linguistic terms ‘wholistic’ and ‘holistic’ are
not interchangeable—they each have distinct meanings. When speaking of health
ministry and parish/faith community nursing, the ‘W’ should be used. The Rev.
Dr. Granger Westberg first advocated the use of the term ‘wholistic’ rather
than ‘holistic,’ to more closely relate the term to wholeness and to avoid
confusion with the term ‘holistic’ that connotes non-religious alternative
health care practices.” Health Ministry
in The United Methodist Church. UMC
Health Ministry Network. Center for Health, accessed 1/9/2017, https://www.wespath.org/assets/1/7/4382.pdf, 1 footnote.
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