Talk:Theophostic Prayer Ministry

message: I have tagged this article for POV-check. A large proportion of the current content is just re-cycled puffery sourced from Theophostic literature and Ed Smith, its originator. MatthewTStone (talk) 10:01, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: POV check

message: Hello, 
I have been a practitioner of Theophostic Prayer Ministry for 13 years, and would like to suggest that there is no such thing as 
"Theophostic Counseling" as the page header suggests. Because it is a method of Christian healing prayer and does not require any training in counseling, the title can be misleading to refer to it as Theophostic Counseling. If it is referred to as counseling, that places it in a realm of professional regulations, which it is not. 
Please consider a more accurate name for the page title: "Theophostic Prayer Ministry". This will clear up some confusion in the general public.
Thank you, 
64.31.232.185 (talk) 14:47, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It comes back to Ed Smith, and the lede of this article explains why. If you read the second cited reference, you'll find the following on page 2: "...When Ed Smith first founded this ministry, he called it TheoPhostic Counseling but later changed it to Theophostic Prayer Ministry. Smith admits that part of his motivation for doing this was to protect Theophostic practitioners from litigation..." He now claims that is not counselling at all, however, many people still evidently believe that it is. M Stone (talk) 00:57, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

text: Can't see any convincing reason to change the title of the article, and the source seems OK for this section. Smith may have changed his tune. Sometimes people do that. M Stone (talk) 21:41, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

text: I have changed the title. RobP (talk) 20:07, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
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