
Human Functioning™·Volume 1 · Issue 4
There is a kind of thinking that feels deep but changes nothing. The question is not merely what you understand, but what your understanding has produced.
Dr. Cheryll Holmes
September 13, 2026·9 min read
The Court of Public Opinion·Volume 1 · Issue 1
Menopause is frequently described as the event that causes women to lose interest in sex. This inaugural publication of The Court of Public Opinion examines the possibility that menopause may sometimes reveal or amplify sexual desire patterns that were already present — and argues that its meaning can only be determined within the complete story of the woman experiencing it.
Professor Cheryll Holmes
August 5, 2026·18 min read
Human Functioning™·Volume 1 · Issue 2
A brief reflection on the first professional skill — and the one most often skipped.
Professor Cheryll Holmes
July 30, 2026·4 min read
Faculty Publications·Volume 1 · Issue 5
A case conference does not ask whether you were right. It asks whether you can show your work.
Dr. Marcus Ellison
July 25, 2026·6 min read
Relationship Research·Volume 1 · Issue 1
Conflict rarely ends a marriage. What ends a marriage is the meaning a couple assigns to conflict once the argument is over.
Dr. Renée Caldwell
July 21, 2026·8 min read
Clinical Practice·Volume 1 · Issue 2
On competence as a moral obligation rather than a credentialing requirement.
Professor Cheryll Holmes
July 14, 2026·3 min read
Human Functioning™·Volume 1 · Issue 1
Change that survives contact with ordinary life is structural, not motivational. What the evidence says about durability.
Dr. Alicia Braithwaite
July 9, 2026·9 min read
Faculty Publications·Volume 1 · Issue 4
When a case will not resolve, the problem is more often the formulation than the intervention.
Dr. Patrice Sinclair
July 2, 2026·7 min read
Theology and Human Flourishing·Volume 1 · Issue 2
Why the Academy refuses the language of transformation-by-slogan — and what we say instead.
Professor Cheryll Holmes
June 30, 2026·4 min read
Clinical Practice·Volume 1 · Issue 1
One person's progress can destabilize an entire household. Anticipating that reaction is part of competent care.
Dr. Andre Reeves
June 24, 2026·7 min read
Faculty Publications·Volume 1 · Issue 3
The first twenty minutes decide how much truth you will be given for the rest of the work.
Dr. Alicia Braithwaite
June 19, 2026·5 min read
Leadership·Volume 1 · Issue 2
A short reflection for pastors, executives, and clinicians who carry others.
Professor Cheryll Holmes
June 16, 2026·3 min read
Theology and Human Flourishing·Volume 1 · Issue 1
Congregational care and clinical rigor are not competitors. The failure mode is unexamined confidence, in either direction.
Dr. Naomi Monroe
June 11, 2026·10 min read
Leadership·Volume 1 · Issue 1
Organizational dysfunction is frequently a leader's unexamined pattern operating at scale.
Dr. Gerald Whitfield
May 28, 2026·6 min read
Faculty Publications·Volume 1 · Issue 2
Culture is not a mood. It is a set of observable behaviors that can be tracked and improved.
Dr. Gerald Whitfield
May 15, 2026·6 min read
Faculty Publications·Volume 1 · Issue 1
A theological anthropology worth practicing must be able to say what it cannot do.
Dr. Naomi Monroe
May 6, 2026·8 min read