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Shedding Light on the Unknown – Without Presuming to Exhaust Its Meaning By...
Shedding Light on the Unknown – Without Presuming to Exhaust Its Meaning– Comments Honoring the Rev. Dr. Donald Eric Capps –delivered in Las Vegas, NV, on 19 March 2013, at the Plenary of the College...
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Chaplain on Demand! by Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhD
Chaplain on Demand! What Non-Pastoral Care Colleagues Want & Believe They Need Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhDWhen is the last time you, the chaplain, asked your non-chaplain colleagues when they...
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THE DEATHS OF TWO GREAT MEN: MYRON MADDEN AND WILL CAMPBELL -- by Raymond...
Myron Madden died peacefully in his sleep early Tuesday morning. Myron was 95 years old. He had been alert and conversant the evening before, discussing with his wife Anne the need for them to plant...
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A Clinical Case Study: Balancing Loss with Love -- by Dominic Fuccillo
A Certified Public Accountant I'll call Deb recently showed me how she balanced the life score after a huge loss.Deb lost a leg and her job as supervisor of 35 others in a large accounting firm. When I...
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MARRIAGE DECLARATION--A BOLD RESPONSE -- By Paul W. Dodd, Chaplain (Colonel),...
Thank you for the bold and prophetic declaration CPSP has released regarding marriage equality. Your public dismay over the injustices of DOMA, and the compelling ethical principles included in your...
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Response to Public Declaration on Marriage Equality -- by Brad Kenney
I would like to second the call of Ron Fuhrman to re-examine the CPSP statement on marriage equality. To begin, I confess that whilst fairly new to the CPSP family (Centennial Chapter member 2010) and...
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The Madden Memorial Service -- by Raymond J. Lawrence
Out of our great love and respect for Myron C. Madden, the genuine patriarch of CPSP, and our love for his wife Ann, four members of the CPSP community attended his Memorial Service, held in historic...
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Tolerance and Encouragement: Having Strong Feelings – without Being...
Knowwhence you have come,wither you go, andWhom before you must stand.Let us try, for a moment, to take the spirit of this admonition to heart – to keep realistic focus on (a) whence we have come –...
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Tolerance and Encouragement: Having Strong Feelings – without Being...
Know whence you have come, wither you go, and Whom before you must stand. Whom before you must stand.Let us try, for a moment, to take the spirit of this admonition to heart – to keep realistic focus...
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REFLECTION ON 2013 SPRING NCTS -- By Rev. Martisha Dwyer, MA
The grounds of the Loyola House in Morristown were ever so inviting, as we gathered this spring for NCTS, to hear fresh information, gaze upon new and familiar faces and break bread together.I was...
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A BOOK REVIEW: Birth-Breath-Death-Meditations -- by Tedford J. Taylor, BCCC
The transcontinental flight home from our recent CPSP Plenary was an apt setting for immersing myself into the journey of Amy Glenn’s life: Birth, Death, & Breath. As I traveled across the...
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St. Martin’s Cloak: Best Practices (we’ve come up with so far) In Palliative...
Palliative Chaplaincy at PACEIn 2009, Palliative Chaplaincy had not yet emerged as a specialty to be certified. Chaplains in a variety of settings had some occasion to provide Palliative Chaplaincy....
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Seeing Through Presence -- by Chaplain Matt Rhodes
The more time I spend in the world of chaplains, the more I hear that the chaplain’s job is to “show up…(dead stop).” That’s it.I continue to hear, “Our job is to just be there with them and be present...
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Steven Voytovich Appointed Dean of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
The Rev. Doctor Steven Voytovich, a CPSP Diplomate in Psychotherapy and Clinical Pastoral Supervision, was recently appointed dean of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, effective August...
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“Mixed children are beautiful”— By Rev. William E. Alberts, Ph.D.
After retiring, in 2011, as a chaplain at Boston Medical Center, I was later rehired to provide coverage, as needed, for the present chaplains. My most recent work led to an encounter with a person...
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Register now! JACK LAMPL and CHARLA HAYDEN coming to NCTS-WEST, September 8-10
NCTS-West is just a month away. We are pleased to announce that Jack Lampl and Charla Hayden, international leaders in group relations theory and practice from the A.K. Rice Institute, will be...
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National Clinical Seminar-East Dates Announced
Francine Hernandez, NCTS-East Coordinator, announced that the National Clinical Training Seminar-East will meet Nov. 11-12, 2013 at San Alfonso Retreat Center, Long Branch, New Jersey. She encourages...
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Frederick Memorial Hospital's CPE Day -- by Kay Myers, PhD
Frederick Memorial Hospital, the Reverend Kay Myers, PhD, certified CPE supervisor,the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, DC, Rabbi Jim Michaels, D.Min., certified CPE supervisor,Hospice of the...
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The Institute for Psychodynamic Pastoral Supervision (IPPS) Second Annual...
Pictured from left to right:Patricia DeHart, Mac Wallace, Marcelle Brathwaite,David Franzen, Matthew Rhodes, Maria Sobremisana, Cesar Espineda, Emma Wallace, Joan Alevras, Emeka Nwigwe, Phillip...
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It is good to be Reminded --by Ron Evans
I never would have believed I would be grateful to see a hand rail beside a toilet seat. Or feel cared for by a woman’s voice somewhere in telephone never never land instructing me on how to fix my TV....
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