Each person has a deep, unconscious sense of what feels like home to them. Formed in one’s earliest experiences, the term home is another way to describe what psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas calls the “unthought known.” One’s unthought known creates a longing in one and motivates one to search for home—to recreate the earliest childhood experiences that feel like home. Theologically, we might say that the longing for home is, in part, the longing for God, wholeness, and what is Good. Homing, or the process of recreating home, is not a neutral process, however. Rather, it is one fraught with political, economic, and psychological challenges born of exclusion and injustice. Pastoral practitioners can facilitate processes of mourning, witness, agency, and change.

每个人对自己的家都有一种深刻的，无意识的感觉。“家”一词最早出现于一个人的生活中，它是描述心理分析学家克里斯托弗·博拉斯（Christopher Bollas）所谓的“未曾想到的”的另一种方式。一个人的未想到的已知一个和激励一个创建一个向往搜索首页重新创建最早的童年经历，感觉就像回家。在神学上，我们可能会说对家的向往，在某种程度上是对神，整体和对善的向往。归位或重建房屋的过程，但是，这不是一个中立的过程。相反，这是一个充满排斥和不公正所带来的政治，经济和心理挑战的国家。牧师可以促进哀悼，见证，代理和改变的过程。