Download PDF: Experiencing Care Within Abstract While recent attention has been given to better understand how spiritual caregivers might be sustained in their efforts, little time has been given to consider what pedagogies might be most helpful to develop both critical
Download PDF: Dombkowski Hopkins, Bridging the Divide Abstract Biblical interpreters argue that the Bible is a gapped, polyphonic collection of texts. Pastoral theology argues that we as readers of the biblical text are multiple and fluid. For too long, the
Download PDF: RV Yun, Caring Liturgies By Susan Marie Smith Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012. 151 pages. $18.00 I wish this volume had been published earlier. As a pastoral caregiver and careseeker, I have known the need to create rituals for moments
Download PDF: Helsel, Definitional Ceremonies Abstract Therapeutic case conferences often take place without clients’ full knowledge and thus disempower them. By contrast, narrative therapy’s definitional ceremonies-drawn from the work of anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff-heighten transparency. The article offers an example of the
Download PDF: RV Lassister Injustice and the Care of Souls Edited by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen B. Montagno Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009. 361 pages. $29.00. Injustice and the Care of Souls is a multi-authored volume written with a surprisingly
Download PDF: Butcher Growing up in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee, I learned two enduring lessons. First, God is mighty and majestic. Surrounded by mountains too big, too old, and too complex for humans to have crafted,
Download PDF: Aymer and Pujol Download PDF: Healing Miracles: Biblical Exegesis and Pastoral Theology in the Context of HIV/AIDS (Syllabus) “Healing Miracles” is an interdisciplinary MDiv course that seeks to start a conversation across the disciplines of biblical
Download PDF: Lassiter, Seeking Wisdom As this issue indicates, academics who traverse theological terrain increasingly wonder how to best use ethnographic methods for theological discourse. Ethnographic method is lauded for capturing knowledge produced by religious practitioners, a fact that anthropologists and
Download PDF: RV McDonald, Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice By Mary Clark Moschella Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2008. 270 pages. $19.80. Designed to complement a ten-week long semester course on “pastoral research” in either a master of divinity program or doctorate
Download PDF: Corrie, Pastoral Care for Youth After watching dozens of people walk up the aisle of the church sanctuary, I decided to join them. I knew exactly for whom I would light my candle – a student I taught