Paul Tillich, in his sermon on the yoke of religion defined the yoke of religion as law, doctrine and dogma. I want to suggest these are equivalent to standards, outcomes, results and accreditation processes. The yoke of religion is parallel to the yoke of Clinical Pastoral Education. Rather than the standards, outcomes and resources being sources of liberation, they are in my opinion sources of restriction. Instead of them contributing to the transformational processes of new being or new creation, they tend to truncate whatever inner wisdom might evolve. In the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education programs are expected to address three major arenas: 1) Pastoral Formation, 2) Pastoral Competence and 3) Pastoral Reflection. Under Pastoral Formation there are three objectives. Under Pastoral Competence there are five objectives. And under Pastoral Reflection there are two objectives. If the student was to have a specialization in Pastoral Care there would be three more objectives...