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Monday, July 28, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Ethics And Theology in Conversation
Mid-South Fall Pastoral Care Institute
October 30-31, 2008
Little Rock, Arkansas
Gather this Fall in Little Rock with chaplains, pastoral counselors, pastoral psychotherapists, and pastoral care givers from across the South for this educational event, beginning at Noon Thursday October 30th with workshops followed by a dinner and speaker that evening. The Institute continues with a day of educational seminars on Friday. Mark your calendars.
More information coming soon!
Presenters:
Thursday evening, October 30
James D. Hester, Ph. D. ,is the Crawford Professor of Religion, Emeritus, from the University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, where he taught for 31 years. He holds a doctorate in theology (DTheol) from the University of Basel (Switzerland), where he studied with Oscar Cullman, Bo Reicke, and Karl Barth.
He is a member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and of the Society of Biblical Literature. He was a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and for 12 years directed the Rhetorical New Testament Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity in Claremont, CA. Jim has presented papers at conferences not only throughout the US but also in England, Europe, and South Africa.
Topic: Returning to the theological roots of pastoral care "Jesus the Healer: The Peasant from Nazareth as Model for Chaplaincy"
Friday morning, October 31
D. Micah Hester, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Medical Humanities/Pediatrics and Clinical Ethicist, Division of Medical Humanities University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Arkansas Children's Hospital.
Topic: “Can't We All Just Get Along? – Considering the Ethics of Goods, Duties, and Virtues”
A call for workshop proposals will be coming soon.
Location:
Trinity Presbyterian Church
4501 Rahling RdLittle Rock, AR 72223
(501) 868-5848
Co-sponsored by:
Mississippi Chaplains Association
Arkansas Association of Chaplains and Pastoral Counselors
Little Rock Chapter of College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pastoral Care and Clinical Pastoral Education
The College of Pastoral Supervision And Psychotherapy
Committed to Ongoing Theological Education and Reflection
October 30-31, 2008
Little Rock, Arkansas
Gather this Fall in Little Rock with chaplains, pastoral counselors, pastoral psychotherapists, and pastoral care givers from across the South for this educational event, beginning at Noon Thursday October 30th with workshops followed by a dinner and speaker that evening. The Institute continues with a day of educational seminars on Friday. Mark your calendars.
More information coming soon!
Presenters:
Thursday evening, October 30
James D. Hester, Ph. D. ,is the Crawford Professor of Religion, Emeritus, from the University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, where he taught for 31 years. He holds a doctorate in theology (DTheol) from the University of Basel (Switzerland), where he studied with Oscar Cullman, Bo Reicke, and Karl Barth.
He is a member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and of the Society of Biblical Literature. He was a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and for 12 years directed the Rhetorical New Testament Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity in Claremont, CA. Jim has presented papers at conferences not only throughout the US but also in England, Europe, and South Africa.
Topic: Returning to the theological roots of pastoral care "Jesus the Healer: The Peasant from Nazareth as Model for Chaplaincy"
Friday morning, October 31
D. Micah Hester, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Medical Humanities/Pediatrics and Clinical Ethicist, Division of Medical Humanities University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Arkansas Children's Hospital.
Topic: “Can't We All Just Get Along? – Considering the Ethics of Goods, Duties, and Virtues”
A call for workshop proposals will be coming soon.
Location:
Trinity Presbyterian Church
4501 Rahling RdLittle Rock, AR 72223
(501) 868-5848
Co-sponsored by:
Mississippi Chaplains Association
Arkansas Association of Chaplains and Pastoral Counselors
Little Rock Chapter of College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pastoral Care and Clinical Pastoral Education
The College of Pastoral Supervision And Psychotherapy
Committed to Ongoing Theological Education and Reflection
Monday, July 07, 2008
Spiritual Care Collaborative Fails First Real Test of True Collaboration
The Spiritual Care Collaborative has recently had to acknowledge to the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy that the SCC has failed to develop a means of including other clinical pastoral training and certifying bodies as members of the SCC. Sadly the admission of the SCC to CPSP that the SCC does not know how to revise its founding documents or whether it should reveals that it is more of a political power block than a truly collaborative organization.
George Hankins HullCPSP
Diplomate in Clinical Pastoral Education
FROM THE CPSP GENERAL SECRETARY: SCC Unable to Act On Question of Whether to Invite CPSPWe applaud the Board of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC) that last month unanimously voted in the affirmative to invite CPSP to join the Spiritual Care Collaborative.
We also applaud the National Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) for taking the same action.
However, neither CPSP nor any other organization should hold its breath waiting for an invitation to join the SCC. The SCC Board reported on June 16 that it was unable to reach a consensus because it does not know how to revise its founding documents in order to include new groups such as CPSP. It seems that the SCC has built a monster, an organization unable to act on such critical issues. It crows about its inclusivity but has no process for including anyone. It is an organization muscle bound, unable to make a decision. The decision-making process they have created is dysfunctional.
The SCC decision-making process goes like this: All important questions are first presented to the individual boards of member organizations for a decision. After all the individual boards have met (a process of many months), representatives of the respective boards hold a phone conference. Unless there is total unanimity there is hardly any way for a decision to come out of such a phone conference. The SCC appears to have created itself in such a way as to make tough or controversial decisions impossible.
On Feb 23, 2003 in Toronto, George Hanzo famously said of the formation of the embryonic SCC (at that time called the Council on Collaboration):"Ten years from now, you won’t recognize the face of professional chaplaincy, and it’s because of the incredible work we’ve done here today."
Well, more than five years have past now since that date and the SCC can’t figure out how to make decisions. We hope that’s not what it means by changing the face of pastoral care and counseling in this country. We’re terribly afraid George might be right.
We wish the SCC well. We certainly need more honest dialogue and more inclusivity in the pastoral care and counseling world. Perhaps when the SCC gathers for its much-touted summit in Orlando next February, it can figure out how to reconstitute itself in a way that decisions can be made.
Raymond Lawrence, General Secretary
To Email Raymond Lawrence, click here.Spiritual Care Collaborative Falls at first Hurdle
George Hankins HullCPSP
Diplomate in Clinical Pastoral Education
FROM THE CPSP GENERAL SECRETARY: SCC Unable to Act On Question of Whether to Invite CPSPWe applaud the Board of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC) that last month unanimously voted in the affirmative to invite CPSP to join the Spiritual Care Collaborative.
We also applaud the National Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) for taking the same action.
However, neither CPSP nor any other organization should hold its breath waiting for an invitation to join the SCC. The SCC Board reported on June 16 that it was unable to reach a consensus because it does not know how to revise its founding documents in order to include new groups such as CPSP. It seems that the SCC has built a monster, an organization unable to act on such critical issues. It crows about its inclusivity but has no process for including anyone. It is an organization muscle bound, unable to make a decision. The decision-making process they have created is dysfunctional.
The SCC decision-making process goes like this: All important questions are first presented to the individual boards of member organizations for a decision. After all the individual boards have met (a process of many months), representatives of the respective boards hold a phone conference. Unless there is total unanimity there is hardly any way for a decision to come out of such a phone conference. The SCC appears to have created itself in such a way as to make tough or controversial decisions impossible.
On Feb 23, 2003 in Toronto, George Hanzo famously said of the formation of the embryonic SCC (at that time called the Council on Collaboration):"Ten years from now, you won’t recognize the face of professional chaplaincy, and it’s because of the incredible work we’ve done here today."
Well, more than five years have past now since that date and the SCC can’t figure out how to make decisions. We hope that’s not what it means by changing the face of pastoral care and counseling in this country. We’re terribly afraid George might be right.
We wish the SCC well. We certainly need more honest dialogue and more inclusivity in the pastoral care and counseling world. Perhaps when the SCC gathers for its much-touted summit in Orlando next February, it can figure out how to reconstitute itself in a way that decisions can be made.
Raymond Lawrence, General Secretary
To Email Raymond Lawrence, click here.Spiritual Care Collaborative Falls at first Hurdle
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