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We Are Better Together: With Gratitude for Your GenerosityDec 22, 2021
As we approach the final days of 2021, I want to express a big “THANK YOU” to all of our donors, supporters, and friends for your incredible generosity of time, talent, and treasure this year. Together, we have navigated another year of a global pandemic, and we have worked together to meet people in the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Your leadership, love, and service do not go unnoticed. You are appreciated for the positive difference you make in the world, and ACPE will continue to be a vibrant community of spiritual care educators and professionals because of you.
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Changing SeasonsDec 17, 2021
The recent storms that have battered the Midwest have been nothing short of terrifying. Imagine going to sleep in a familiar world only to wake up to utter desolation, the community you once knew, reduced to rubble. Of course, the initial response is about basic needs, preserving life, minimizing the risks that come with downed power lines and broken gas mains. At some point—often a moment that is not defined or predictable—people shift towards “now what?” In the words of the ancients, how then shall we live?
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Before the Time of QuarantineDec 15, 2021
Jennifer Reek is a chaplain at Christus St. Vincent Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has a Master of Divinity from Regis College, the Jesuit Faculty at the University of Toronto. She is the author of A Poetics of Church: Reading and Writing Sacred Spaces of Poetic Dwelling (Routledge, 2018), a work developed from her PhD research at the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow. She can be contacted at jenniferreek@gmail.com.
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A Blessing for Traveling in the DarkDec 10, 2021
As we approach our second pandemic winter here in the Northern hemisphere, I am trying to make peace with the quiet dark. Gone is the extravagance of spring, flinging seeds far and wide. And the colorful, fragrant summer with abundance of fruit and lingering of days. The crispness of autumn and the slow draining of color have brought us to this point, with bare trees, grey skies and the darkness that descends each day long before I’m ready for it.
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My Final Reflection as ACPE’s Board ChairDec 6, 2021
First, thank you to ACPE’s members and students for the privilege of serving alongside you as colleagues in the discipline of Spiritual Care and Education. To the ACPE Board of Directors, thank you for your wisdom, tenacity, and commitment to our association. You have been thoughtful, diligent, and courageous leaders. To the ACPE Staff, thank you for your professional expertise, patience, longsuffering, and dedication to our association.
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For your professional ethics edification in DecemberDec 3, 2021
Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments
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Thank You!Nov 19, 2021
In this fall season many cultures celebrate the plenty of harvest and encourage expressions of gratitude.
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Relevance of Religion and Spirituality to Mental HealthNov 17, 2021
In its July 2021 edition, the journal Social Work published research of great significance to ACPE and others involved in training therapists to work with spirituality and religion.
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Board of Directors Brief
Nov 12, 2021
ACPE’s Board of Directors met by videoconference on November 8 and 9, 2021. Unfortunately, the ongoing pandemic forced the association to cancel in-person leadership meetings again this fall. However, although virtual, our time together was productive, meaningful, and exciting. We even participated in a “kindness quest” with volunteers serving on ACPE’s other commissions and committees. The quest was a fun team-building exercise and a rare opportunity to see old and new friends.
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A Word of Thanks
Nov 11, 2021
Shawn Mai shared the following beautiful poem as the opening reflection for the ACPE Board of Director’s meeting last week: “The Way It Is”
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Improvisation
Nov 5, 2021
In Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life, Eileen Campbell-Reed explores the ways that people learn the art of ministry. She tells stories of people as they learn the practice, while offering questions for reflection, and conversation with thinkers and scholars about the practice of ministry. The book grew out of a dozen-year longitudinal study of ministers, beginning when they were in seminary and tracing the arc of their ministry practice as they gain experience and confidence.
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For your professional ethics edification in November
Nov 3, 2021
Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments
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In Spite OfNov 3, 2021
Cindy L. Hershberger is a Chaplain Resident at BayCare - Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Florida. She is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America with a MDiv degree from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. She can be contacted at Cindy.Hershberger@baycare.org.
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Today is Giving Tuesday!Nov 3, 2021
Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. ACPE's goal is to raise $10,000 to start a scholarship initiative for underrepresented ACPE students to continue their training as chaplains, psychotherapists, and spiritual care educators. To help us reach our goal, Thorne Consulting will donate $1,000 if we get 20 new donors to make a gift to the Foundation for ACPE!
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Thank you, ACPE Members
Nov 1, 2021
As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I am aware that the past year has included many personal, public, and organizational losses for many of us. And still, I have much for which to give thanks. I am grateful for you, the members of our association. So many of you devote your unwavering engagement nationally, locally, and within your web of acquaintances and interests. Thank you for your energy and commitment.
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Submit a Workshop Proposal by December 8
Oct 29, 2021
All are invited to submit a proposal for the 2022 Annual Conference, jointly presented by the Association of Professional Chaplains and ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education.
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Disorienting Dilemma #3: Still LoganOct 28, 2021
Natalia A. Shulgina is an Educator Candidate at UNC Rex Healthcare in Raleigh, NC. She is an ordained elder in the Russia United Methodist Church and a Lay Cistercian oblate at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, KY. Natalia holds a Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, with special concentration in pastoral care, practical theology, and monastic spirituality. She can be reached at Natalia.Shulgina@unchealth.unc.edu.
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Continuing the Good WorkOct 25, 2021
The season of giving is approaching as we prepare for Giving Tuesday, November 30, 2021. The importance of giving to this organization was made apparent to me when I was in supervisory education. I attended my first REM conference and was made aware of the seminal work in place to address disparities in the ACPE and thusly our professions. Some of the initiatives that played a large role for me included financial support for students to attend ACPE’s national meetings, as well as consultations for students of color in the certification process.
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An Update of the ACPE-APC Implementation ProcessOct 20, 2021
In September, the four workgroups of the Implementation Process met with the Steering Committee to clarify roles, tasks, and next steps.
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2021 ACPE Election: Vote Today! Polls close at Noon Eastern on November 3Oct 18, 2021
The Leadership Development Committee (LDC) received a robust response to our call for nominations earlier this year. Our committee prioritized diversity, association needs, and member’s professional development in our work to create the proposed slate.