The poem below by Dielle Ciesco (https://dielleciesco.com/) anticipates some of the moral and ethical questions that hopefully will arise during the NCC seminar I will present on Monday May 10, 2021. As she suggests, these are questions which ‘Now is a good time to ask’! Ernesto Vasquez, MD Who would you be? A lot [...]
In the short piece below, Professor Sinead Murphy brilliantly ex-presses, in part, why I fret so much about the so-called covid measures. - Ernesto Vasquez, MD THE CAPTURE OF GOODNESS Goodness’ is not the word I wanted to use in this article. But ‘ethics’ sounded too abstract, ‘morality’ too rule-bound, ‘virtue’ too archaic, and [...]
Are you feeling anxious? Have you been stirred up by current events and uncertainties? Are you feeling unrest in your soul? “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled.” These are the words that Jesus left with his disciples the night before his crucifixion. That’s right. He was preparing for his death, actually his murder. Yet [...]
Pennies are so devalued in our country that most people won't even pick them up if they see one lying on the ground. They get dirty and are often overlooked. The same is often true of the homeless. They are all around us on street corners and under bridges, but most people pass them [...]
SELF RELIANCE VS. DEPENDENCE ON GOD A very dear friend of mine said to me the other day, “God won't give me more than I can handle.” And because I love her and we have that kind of relationship where we can reprove one another, I challenged her on the thinking behind that statement. [...]
Ernesto Vasquez, MD DESCRIPTION 1. Recent psychological studies provide two radically different understandings of psychological responses to contagious malady and its management. 2. These studies are grounded by radically different and incompatible ways of psychological theorizing and reach equally different and incompatible conclusions and recommendations. 3. This seminar will offer ways of analyzing these [...]
How can we have wisdom and faith to wait on the Lord? Betsy O'Callaghan, LMFT How can we have wisdom and faith to wait on the Lord, to trust in Him when all around us our world is being turned upside down? One of the blessings I am seeing in the midst of so [...]
We are facing things in our world that we have never faced before and it is easy to get caught up in the fear and confusion that is so rampant in this season of the COVID -19 pandemic. How can we step back from the constant news updates and look for where we can [...]
In this time of uncertainty, isolation, and fear, there is one thing that is unchanging – One on whom we can count to rescue us and to provide for us. Those of us who know the Lord, who study His word and trust in His promises, have a different perspective than the rest of [...]
Presented by Harry Morgan, M.A., M.Div., Th.M., PhD, LMHC, Phil Lewis, M.A., Certified Life Coach, Glenn Pav, Marketplace Chaplain Seminar Title: Linking Pastoral Counseling, Life Coaching and the Chaplain Ministry to Licensed Clinical Counseling Seminar Objectives: 1. Identify the unique roles, responsibilities and restrictions in pastoral counseling, life-coaching, chaplaincy, and clinical counseling. 2. Understand [...]
