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Clients bring to therapy sessions a diverse background of spiritual beliefs and religious orientations that they perceive as valuable resources and coping skills. Yet, not all psychologists know how to address effectively these beliefs and orientations. The author uses case examples to describe his experience within the United States Air Force community gained while establishing a collaborative relationship with the clergy. Recommendations include the following: how to start the collaboration, establishing a collegial relationship, pursuing continuing education on faith factors in counseling, how to utilize pastoral counselors, marketing your respect for the clergy, and capitalizing on the value of clergy in providing continuing education to psychologists.

This article goes beyond O'Donohue's (1989) '(even) bolder model' of the psychologist as metaphysician-scientist-practitioner to call for an explicit and constructive relationship between psychology and religion. Psychology's previously noninteractive stance toward religion was premised on an outmoded understanding of science and an overly narrow professionalism. Contemporary philosophy of science breaks down the radical demarcation between science and other forms of human knowing and action, including religion. Science and religion are different, but they cannot be categorically separated or viewed as mutually exclusive. A proposal is developed for how religion could participate as an active partner with psychology as a science and as an applied professional discipline.