I’ve been mulling over the reporting by attenders at mindfulness sessions that I run of a sense of calm even after a half hour session. And while I’ve been relating that the studies tend to show benefits over time, nevertheless it is clear that there are reported benefits even for one-off or irregular practice. So […]
chaplaincy
HE Academy and HE chaplaincy
Introduction. The purpose of writing this is to set out the way that HEA fellowship is designed in order to assess, briefly, how far such fellowship is congruent with the work of chaplains in HE. Beyond that it is hoped that this would give a broad sense of how chaplains might engage it and whether […]
Questions to find ways into community ministry
I’ve found a set of questions from Carl S Dudley in Basic Steps toward Community Ministry (or here) seem to sum up well the kinds of things that I have discovered I want to know early on in a pastoral or missional ministry in a community. So here they are, consolidated from several chapters. Step […]
‘Multifaith spaces’ set for scrutiny
The project’s “theological associate”, the Revd Dr Terry Biddington, Anglican Chaplain to the Manchester Higher Education Community, said that he had sympathy with those who held that multifaith spaces in a single room were “radical impossibilities”. “The unspoken grammar” of a space in which to worship, with the accompanying actions, dress, and artefacts, meant that […]
Best-practice report for Muslim chaplains -model for others?
This could be very significant for Chaplaincy. All chaplains needed to be “credible representatives of their faith”; they needed comprehensive knowledge and the skills and access to support to do their job. They needed good English and another language to communicate with their clients, a commitment to providing pastoral care to everyone as though they […]
Chaplaincy in Healthcare
Those lovely people at Ekklesia have come up with a series of papers on the subject. NHS chaplaincies ‘bring added value and resources’ Chaplaincy teams in the National Health Service are good value and bring added benefits and resources to clinical treatment, say health specialists responding to a call to stop their official funding. 10 […]