![]() His next career started around the time of his retirement, somewhere in his 60s. During these years he built up a formidable home library that continuously fed his keen intellect and curiosity about life and the human mind. After a brief academic career at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, he committed himself full time to his practice, while also training at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Los Angeles. (University of Washington) in Psychology, Jim spent the next 35 years in private practice as a clinical psychologist. In late 1960, aged 25, he packed up his wife and two tiny kids into a Volkswagen Beetle and headed for Seattle - a big, far-distant, and certainly heathen city by Montana terms.Īfter acquiring a bachelor’s degree (Seattle Pacific College) and Ph.D. They did try the church option (Jim preaching, Helen on the organ) but Jim opened his ears to a more urgent, if somewhat distant, calling: to leave the church and get himself a “real” education. They married at 21 and had two kids by age 24. He met his wife, Helen Ritchie, at Bible college in Missouri. It wasn’t too long though before he realized the call wasn’t actually coming from a deep inner revelation but from his family of origin (particularly the maternal side) - as well as the Pentecostal culture he was brought up in in rural Montana. 15, 2022, aged 87.īorn in Miles City, Montana, on May 4, 1935, Jim answered an early calling to become a minister of the Gospel. Jim Oakland passed away just after midnight Aug.
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