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Welcome to this Special Issue of the Oates Journal, “Holding the Boundaries: Professional Ethics in Practice.” Why, you might ask, do we need more information and discussion on this issue? The issues and behaviors that have come to light in the last six months in the United States and across the world provide one answer. Perhaps if we keep shining the light on holding the boundaries in our professional ethics in practice that light may spread.
Wayne Clark begins our journey with his article in which he believes “…ethical character springs from the hidden self revealed completely to God, but by everyone through our actions.” Leah Taylor and Karrie Oertli focus on boundaries in the care professions and especially “…professionals’ inattention to the concept of intimacy in the professional/client relationship.” William Clough continues this discussion in his article “Wandering along the Boundary Lines." Janet Forbes’ article speaks to the issues faced by an afterpastor both for the congregation and the afterpastor. Marie Fortune’s sermon “Sheep in the Midst of Wolves” preached at University Christian Church in Seattle on July 20, 2008, speaks to all of us who have been/are sheep and professionally have been/are shepherds.
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M. Wayne Clark, D.Min. is the Director of Clinical Training, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Counseling Training Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Leah S. Taylor, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT, is a Behavioral Health Specialist with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, which governs Medicaid in Oklahoma, in charge of Stakeholder Relations and Provider Training.
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Karrie Ann Oertli, M.Div., BCC, is the Director of Pastoral Services and the Administrative Director of the James L. Hall Center for Mind, Body, Spirit at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center.
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William R. Clough, D.Min., is Program Chair, Pastoral Community Counseling Program, Argosy University in Sarasota, Florida.
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Janet L. Forbes, D.Min., is the Senior Pastor of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch, a planned community south of Denver, Colorado.
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Marie M. Fortune, D.Min., is the Founder and Senior Analyst at the Faith Trust Institute (www.faithtrustinstitute.org) in Seattle, Washington. She is ordained in the United Church of Christ. She is an author, teacher, pastor, practicing ethicist and theologian. Her numerous books include Is Nothing Sacred? from Pilgrim Press (Cleveland).
Willard D. Sapp, Co-Editor
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