Note to Self: Keep your brain where it belongs
“We believe in things like science ,” a client tells me after learning that I am an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ. I have been working with his family for three years and there has never been any indication that either this man or his wife think I am anything but very smart. In fact, they have often credited our work together with saving their family life and marriage! I do not take his statement as an insult, but rather, as evidence of the depth of religion’s wounding...