by Gary Hallquist, DMin, DWS | Jul 17, 2023 | Poimenas
While recently reading Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture by Gene Edward Veith Jr., my thoughts went on a tangential journey about the Copernican Revolution of the 16th Century. Up to that time, astronomers and scientists thought the Earth was...
by Gary Hallquist, DMin, DWS | Sep 12, 2022 | Poimenas
If you’ve counseled for any length of time, you have likely found yourself in a spot where you have done everything you know to do, but the person you are counseling is no better. Maybe it’s a couple that you’ve been working with that’s highly conflicted, and they are...
by Gary Hallquist, DMin, DWS | Jan 18, 2022 | Poimenas
Not long ago I stood over the casket of a precious friend whose life on earth was taken from her by brain cancer. I watched as her faithful adoring husband tried desperately to console himself—he was mildly successful. They had prayed. Many had prayed. For years. The...
by Gary Hallquist, DMin, DWS | Jul 21, 2020 | Poimenas
I remember the moment in my first counseling class when the professor asked, “Do you know what the goal of all counseling is?” I was struck by the question for a couple of reasons. One, I hadn’t really thought of counseling as having a goal (shame on me). If I had to...
