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Category Archives: Biblical Counseling
The Power of No
A short, crisp, and phonetically easy word that’s often misused in our day and age is the word ‘No’. No is a simple yet powerful word. In the Western world, it is the first verbal boundary marker for an individual. This however is an alien concept in India…
A faithful friend until the end
Who is a close friend? I’ve had diverse friends all my life. Growing up, I always had close friends for a season, but only for a season. It bewilders me even now as to how I lost so many friends along the way. My best friend in school was someone with whom I played afterContinue reading “A faithful friend until the end”
Seeing Him smile.
There are two kinds of children who earn the Father’s displeasure…
Come Home this Christmas
Coming home has become overwhelming. Keeping up with family traditions and prepping up for family dinners can be really stressful for some. Coming home to a dysfunctional family with an absentee father or a controlling mother can be stressful for some others. Culturally we live in tumultuous times. Christians are terrorized by the threat of anti-conversion bills and right-winged bullies, constantly living their own rightful lives as though they have committed the unpardonable sin. Young blokes are calling for a ‘ghar wapasi’ (homecoming to the home religion) to seal the nation’s ethnic identity, unaware that such tactics make the idea of home more abhorrent. We have no where to escape and no place to rest our weary heads.
Disability is Normal
One of the biggest hoops that the disabled and their caregivers have to hop through in the Indian landscape is the obsession for perfection. Since the time of our adoption, I have met several who have indicated this subconscious obsession, unbeknownst to themselves, one way or another.
Caricatures: Loving those unlike ourselves
Caricatures are a bit like my first-time country fair experience – you see the oddities and make exaggerated conclusions on matters that you only get to see or know for a very short span of time. Caricatures are interesting when you first make them, but then, if you’ve never seen the real deal, you mistake it for the worst or funniest representation of reality.
The dying art of Biblical Counseling
This post was first published on GentleReformation as a tribute to my counseling mentor and erstwhile professor Dr. George Scipione. A few years ago, I was in the US going through my biblical counseling certification. Afriend opened up a question to me at that time, “So, what have been your observations counseling folks from ourContinue reading “The dying art of Biblical Counseling”