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{"title":"Responding to Campus Crisis: Equipping College Chaplains Through Theological Education","authors":"T. Steinwert","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2022.2028055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2022.2028055","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Campus chaplains can provide essential support for students as they learn to navigate life in and through this pandemic. However, if chaplains are to successfully confront the oncoming mental health catastrophe on college campuses, theological educators must prepare and equip them to meet this moment. There are three primary tasks theological education must address in their formation of chaplains for higher education: (1) Chaplaincy concentrations and tracks must address the contextual needs for those entering higher education and must include a clear vision of their role as existential guides and public theologians. (2) Theological educators must critically examine the ways in which Christian hegemony and white supremacy continue to inform and shape the logic of theological education and work to dismantle barriers to access for diverse communities. (3) Theological schools must forge creative, interdisciplinary collaborations that leverage the research and best practices honed by scholars outside of theological education.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"19 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48688835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Voices at the Forefront of Care and Justice","authors":"M. Moschella, Danjuma Gibson","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2022.2069645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2022.2069645","url":null,"abstract":"The first issue in volume 32 of the Journal of Pastoral Theology includes a special issue on chaplaincy and highlights from the 2021 Society of Pastoral Theology (SPT) Annual Study Conference with the theme ‘Viral Care and Viral Justice in an Apocalyptic World.’ In the chaplaincy special issue, we are pleased to feature ‘The Changing Landscape of Spiritual Care: Implications for the Education of Chaplains,’ guest-edited by Shelly Rambo of Boston University and Cheryl Giles of Harvard Divinity School. These scholars charge pastoral theologians to focus more intently on educating students for the work of a diverse array of chaplaincy roles, including not only military, hospital, prison, and educational chaplaincy, but also chaplaincy that attends to the needs of political protestors, eco-chaplains, and chaplains responding to those devastated by pandemics and natural disasters. Rambo and Giles argue that chaplaincy is becoming the primary professional form of ministries of spiritual and pastoral care in our time. They assert that seminaries and divinity schools must adjust to this new reality, instead of merely tweaking traditional Masters of Divinity programs that privilege the role of Christian church pastors over other religious leaders and over other forms of ministry. To this end, Rambo and Giles offer us a series of eleven short articles written by chaplaincy practitioners and educators. These authors discuss various issues arising from their work experience. Prominent among these is the need for more chaplains representing diverse religious communities and racial identities. Pointing out the many obstacles that current modes of education and training present for chaplains in minority groups and minority religious groups, these essays challenge pastoral theologians to reflect on pedagogies and practices in light of the changing conditions and situations that practitioners are encountering in this altered professional landscape. The issues raised here are in some ways not new to us in the field. Kathleen Greider, Tom Beaudoin, and others have challenged the ubiquity of ‘Christianicity’ in models of pastoral and spiritual care. Carrie Doehring has long advocated for the teaching of inter-religious competencies to students in seminaries and divinity schools. Phillis Sheppard, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, and many other scholars in pastoral theology have been raising important critiques of racism and white supremacy in teaching, research, and pastoral practice for justice and liberation. Still, these current articles cry out for change, reminding us that this field that resides at the intersection of theory and practice is strengthened when scholars and teachers listen to the voices of practitioners fully engaged in living ministries of care. Rambo and Giles point to three needed foci in teaching that are familiar to most who teach pastoral and spiritual care classes: skills in meaning-making, interpersonal competencies, and navigating organizations. ","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41857156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chaplains Enable Spiritual Wellbeing","authors":"W. Payne","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2022.2050969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2022.2050969","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 All just societies recognize the intrinsic right of people to practice their faith in accordance with their conscience. In order to practice faith, people need easy access to religious specialists who facilitate the free exercise of religion. When institutions and government agencies erect barriers that separate people from their spiritual care providers, the spiritual needs and essential rights of the people are compromised. This article argues that spiritual care is essential and that chaplains should advocate for the religious needs of their people when they lack meaningful access to a faith-specific spiritual care provider.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"62 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46175570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diversity & Spiritual Care in the Pandemic","authors":"E. D. Jones","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2022.2059245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2022.2059245","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Disenfranchised grief is the experience of grief where the loss, the style of grieving, or the griever is not or cannot be sufficiently recognized. It describes well what a great many underrepresented spiritual care providers experience at times during their clinical pastoral education – feeling as if one is a stranger – racially, socially, and culturally – in the exchange of care. This paper discusses this experience in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, ultimately endeavoring to stress the importance of being both seen and recognized.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"31 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42174098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Changing Landscape of Spiritual Care: Implications for the Theological Education of Chaplains","authors":"S. Rambo, Cheryl A. Giles","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2022.2059231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2022.2059231","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Amidst forecasts about the future of theological education, the authors suggest that a spiritual care revolution is taking place, one that centers chaplains as the religious leaders of the future. This introduction situates the work of chaplains in the current moment and urges pastoral theologians to increase their ongoing investments in spiritual care education that is nimble and responsive to these changes. The authors organize insights around three basic questions that can serve as prompts for vital discussions about how to educate chaplains more effectively to meet current demands: What are we educating for? What are we educating chaplains to do? Where is the need? This issue features the research conducted from various collaborations around chaplaincy education and highlights the value of creating feedback loops between working chaplains, educators, and chaplaincy researchers.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"4 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43735257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"By the Renewal of Your Mind: Clinical and Theological Reflections on Racism and Anti-Racism","authors":"Mary Elizabeth Toler","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2022.2056355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2022.2056355","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For many white, Western European descendant-citizens of the United States who watched the horrific death of George Floyd and ensuing protests, the question of one’s racism has landed front and center in their consciousness in stark, new ways. This article offers a series of clinical and Christian theological reflections on the nature of race, racism, and anti-racism based on material gleaned from a series of clinical counseling encounters, including a verbatim from one particular session. The reflections include feedback from the Society of Pastoral Theology’s workshop I presented in June 2021. They are not intended to offer any exhaustive, definitive, proscriptive claims about race, racism, and anti-racism. Rather, the reflections are intended to be invitations to curiosity and to create avenues for future inquiry, particularly as it relates to pastoral counseling and the overall, ongoing formational work of raising consciousness around issues of race, culture, and ethnicity.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"101 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45924722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Challenges and Opportunities in Training Muslim Chaplaincy Students for a Burgeoning New Field","authors":"Feryal Salem","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2022.2059246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2022.2059246","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Though a relatively new field, Islamic chaplaincy has become integral to many spiritual care and religious life divisions of public institutions that have undergone a significant shift towards a multifaith presence in approximately the last fifty years. These changes promote new opportunities in which Muslim chaplains can enrich religious life through their distinctive contributions to the field. Simultaneously, there are challenges that need to be addressed such as hiring practices that provide balanced support for Muslim chaplains, the avoidance of tokenization tendencies through ensuring the proper education of students training to become Muslim chaplains, and the need for such students to have their own space for development and formation that does not compromise their religious identities in Christian majority contexts. These challenges have facilitated creative solutions as well as calls for action from interfaith allies.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"47 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43493926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: A Lived Theological Education","authors":"Bilal W. Ansari","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2022.2059247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2022.2059247","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Working from the insights of a chaplaincy encounter around death and burial rites, this essay argues for the education of Muslim chaplains that is grounded in Muslim pastoral theology. Muslim chaplains must be prepared to face intersecting sociological, psychological, racial, and cultural issues that arise in spiritual ministry. Lived theological education helps Muslim chaplains root and integrate spiritual care in one’s faith tradition and a theory of professional practice. Theological schools need to ensure that they are actively educating Muslim chaplains in ways that develop multidimensional cultural sensitivity and interpersonal skills that assist in navigating intersectional care experiences.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"71 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42297947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pastoral Theology and the Problem of Political Violence","authors":"R. Lamothe","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2021.2005287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2021.2005287","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that political violence is unjustifiable as a basis of forming a polis. To make this case, a brief explication of the notions “political” and “political violence” is proffered. From here I claim that political violence is inimical to civic care and civic faith that founds a polis' space of speaking and acting together. I then shift to a Christian pastoral theological framework, arguing that political violence contradicts the revelation of the incarnation of Jesus Christ and is, therefore, unjustifiable. More specifically, the incarnation reveals a non-sovereign God of infinite, indeterminate care as the principle for organizing human relations-the ecclesia/polis. I also argue that Jesus' forgiveness of the Roman soldiers can be grasped in terms of Giorgio Agamben's notion of inoperativity, wherein the apparatuses and grammar of the terroristic forms of Roman political violence are rendered inoperative as a way of organizing human relations.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"33 1","pages":"122 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49126111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Justice Matters: Spiritual Care and Pastoral Theological Imaginations in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Kyung Lee, Danjuma Gibson","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2021.2010993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2021.2010993","url":null,"abstract":"The JPT seeks pastoral theological essays for a special issue on the topics related to the current Coronavirus-19 pandemic. Suggested topics may include pastoral theological reflections on Anti-Asian Racism, Xenophobia, equity implications of the pandemic, the meaning of suffering, the role of religious communities in response to the pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on religion and religious practices, and other topics you deem appropriate to this call.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"31 1","pages":"81 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46910687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}