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The Society for Christian Psychology
E. Johnson: I can just share some wishes unsy- experienced more encouragement and support
stematically. For example, I hope for an increa- by getting in contact with Christian psycholo-
sing number of research projects and results on gists in other countries of Europe as well as in
Christian-psychological topics. We need more South Africa and South Korea. The global re-
books about Christian psychology, about foun- lationships on personal and professional levels
dations and practice. And articles as examples are a very precious gift. I should have mentio-
of this approach should be published in main ned that before, telling about our history, but
secular psychology journals. I think it also fits very well at the end of this
interview, because it will be read all around the
world. It is exciting that the idea of “Christi-
an psychology” arises at different places, and I
hope that the group of Christian psychologists,
who know one another and meet, as well as the
contact between institutions, will grow, and that
professionals and students all over the world are
encouraged to hope for and to be committed to
Christian psychology.
On our website we end our introduction with
an invitation, which I also want to extend to all
the readers of this journal: We invite you to join
us in our dialogue as we seek the leading of the
Spirit to guide us to psychological truths. We
invite you to join our Society and receive our
newsletter, and also to come to our conferences,
so that you can become a regular participant in
this dialogue.
A. May: Thank you, Eric, for this interview and
your invitation. May God bless you and all of
us, so that we let Jesus really be the Lord of Psy-
chology.
2013, Eric Johnson and Werner May
are looking into the future of
a Christian psychology Agnes May
Training in religious education and adult edu-
To publish good books and articles we need cation. Since 1998 at the IGNIS Institute as
time and that means money for research and editor, writer and adult educator for the cor-
writing. respondence course Foundations of Christian
And I also hope that the worldwide cooperati- Psychology, since 2004 as person in charge of
on will grow. The formation of our society was this course. agnes.may@ignis.de
supported by the contact with IGNIS in Ger- Articles by Agnes May you can see here:
many and, in the following ten years, we have Journal 2 on page 21, 48
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