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We tend to define pastoral care and medical intervention in very limiting terms. Too often we are more concerned with the delivery of the product than we are with the manner in which it is received. This paper looks at the experiences of a young woman with cancer and how she sought a certain personal component to the pastoral care she received and the medical treatments she was willing to accept.

Death, sin, and God's judgment.

Grief is difficult for everyone, including the professional. And yet resolving grief is necessary for life to be comfortable and productive. This paper looks at the story of a young man and how unresolved grief, inappropriate guilt, and uncontrollable despair colored every phase of his life.