Barbara J. McClure

Barbara J. McClure’s interests lie primarily in the meaning of and means toward human flourishing. She has pursued this question in a variety of contexts including institutions of work, worship, and learning, as well as within the context of a counseling practice. Her driving questions include “What does it mean to be a human being and how do our understandings of that shape our work and life together?” Using social theory, psychology, progressive Christian theologies, and contemporary science, McClure explores the assumptions that ground practices of care or healing and asks whether they are adequate to the complexity of a deeply social and contextual understanding of human experience.