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Dr. George Buck, Lifetime Achievement Award -- by Susan McDougal
Dr. George Buck earned the lifetime achievement award several lifetimes ago. His history in the Pastoral Care field goes back more than 50 years. George is believed to be the last remaining chaplain...
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Thoughts About Orlando -- by Raymond J. Lawrence, General Secretary
The news from Orlando reminds us that homophobia is a religious and psychological blight that those us in the healing professions must continue to address, for the good of the whole community. Orlando...
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An Invitation... What CPSP Means to You (video)
The CPSP Communications Committee is producing a new video and audio podcast series, "What CPSP Means to You", and committee member, Susan McDougal, is here to tell you more about it:
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CPSP Chaplains Respond to Orlando Tragedy--- by Scott A. Fleming, Missiouri...
On Sunday, June 12th, many of us here in the Orlando, Florida community awoke to the local news that twenty persons had been shot in a popular Orlando nightclub during a Latin night event. By the time...
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Increasing Trend to Secularize Chaplaincy -- by George Hull, Dip.Th., Th.M.
There has been an increasing trend in the pastoral care movement to move away from chaplaincy and pastoral care in favor of promoting and providing "spiritual care." Many hospital departments have...
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Insights Into Cancer (14 Jun. 2016 video) -- by Michael Eselun
Insights Into Cancer June 14, 2016 from Simms/Mann UCLA Center on Vimeo.Michael Eselun is a CPSP Board Certified Clinical Chaplain and a member of the Los Angeles, CA Chapter. He serves as the...
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Improvising with-in the Shadows
I just returned from the 52nd Annual AK Rice Residential Group Relations Conference, Improvising with-in the Shadows, Exploring Authority And Leadership in Our Organizations and Communities, held July...
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David Franzen's AAPC Theory Paper of the Year Published – by Perry Miller,...
If you are writing theory papers, or if you are supervising trainees in this process, a new resource is now available for you to explore. The Rev. Dr. David Franzen has just published an article on...
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Asha Swims -- by Perry Miller, Editor
A member of our CPSP family achieved an extraordinary accomplishment this past Saturday. Asha Allen successfully swam across the English Channel. This she did in thirteen hours, 3 minutes, in Force 5...
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Joanne Martindale, CPSP Diplomate, Promoted to Colonel in Army Reserve – by...
Chaplain Joanne S. Martindale, a CPSP Diplomate CPE Supervisor, member of the Nautilus Pacific Chapter, and Veterans Administration chaplain at David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, CA,...
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Committee on the Promotion and Certification of Chapters – By Miriam...
Our covenant reminds us that chapter life is the heart of our organization. The values and commitments that we uphold each time we read this covenant – collegial professional community; mutual...
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NCTS-West Announces 2015 Fall Gathering
National Clinical Training Seminar-West ( NCTS-West) announces the dates and venue of the next gathering. Please mark on your calendar the dates of October 18-20, 2015 for the event which will be held...
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Reflections on 2015 Spring National Clinical Training Seminar - East – By...
I entered the world of CPSP in late summer of 2011 as a supervisor in training. Since that time I have attended just about every National Clinical Training Seminar (NCTS) and have come to value...
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Revision in CPSP's Certification Process – By Jonathan Freeman
At its most recent meeting, the CPSP Governing Council approved changes to the CPSP certification process. These changes are implemented to strengthen the role of the chapter in the certification...
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The Current Crisis in Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care – By Raymond...
Almost a century ago Anton Boisen changed the face of pastoral work. He taught religious professionals to be healers. Listening to persons suffering mentally or physically was his central theme. To get...
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Raymond Lawrence, CPSP General Secretary, Response to Charleston, SC Tragedy
The ghastly event at Mother Emanuel AME Church Thursday in Charleston, South Carolina, was an unspeakable act of violence seemingly motivated explicitly by racial hatred.We must do all we can to...
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Columbia, SC CPSP Chapter Responds to Charleston Tragedy – By Hayden Howell
Editor's Note: Below is a Pastoral Letter to the Columbia, SC and the CPSP community from Hayden Howell, CPE Supervisor.Dear Columbia Chapter, CPSP (other colleagues, and former members of the...
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Candy and Pencils – By Ron Evans
The purpose of my going to the Correctional Centre, aka jail, was to meet with two artists confined to the facility, individuals who I hoped might be able to do some sketching for a writing project I...
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Professor Valerie Cooper Reflections on the Charleston Tragedy and the...
Dr. Valerie Cooper, Associate Professor of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School, in a recent interview on WUNC.ORG's NPR station provides a rich and thoughtful perspective on the Charleston, SC...
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The Current Crisis in Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Part Two-- By...
(An Extended Review of Spiritual Care in Practice: Case Studies in Healthcare Chaplaincy George Fitchett & Steve Nolan, Editors)NOTE: See Part IIThe CaseErica is the mother of a two-year-old girl...
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