Reflective Practice - Formation and Supervision in Ministry (E-Journal)
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A Profile in Resiliency: One Student’s Growth in a New Neighborhood Engagement Program
Full text linkCultivation of resilience is a key aspect of a new experiential program for students at Bethany Seminary, located in east central Indiana. In a case study of one student’s initial reluctance and poor choices, practices of accountability fostered growth
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 44
No full textVolume 44 is introduced to the readers. The overall theme of this volume is "Formation and Supervision at the Margins". Authors from clinical pastoral education and field education share their experiences and their programs that are on the margins of has been typical and traditional in these two fields of teaching and education.
 
Queering CPE in Central Pennsylvania: An Embodied Womanist Approach to Learning
Full text linkThe growing awareness in clinical pastoral education is the importance of students' ability to reflect on their cultural identity. The purpose is that a student's ability to be in a relationship with another person is directly impacted by how the student is in a relationship with oneself. Spiritual care clinicians and educators are calling for a decolonized approach to learning that centers the body as the focus of learning. This type of learning invites us to pay attention to our Be-ingness in relationship to self and others. The focus is on how being a black, queer, and woman influenced my supervisory relationship with my students and the environment where I work as an educator. It demonstrates the theories utilized to engage students who don’t have the context of this style of learning. Ultimately, discovered that certain persons and environments are on the margins of queer, and liberating thinking. This article aims to invite certified educators and certified educator candidates to reflect on how their social location impacts their relationship with their students
The Three Voices: An Embodied Modality of Pastoral Supervision
Full text linkThis article outlines and sets forth an integrative model of pastoral supervision which marries embodiment and narration. After outlining the origins of the model in the work of Jonathan Chambers, embodied supervisory approaches are explored and theological considerations offered. The effectiveness of the model, through which individual and group reflective processes generate transformative insights in challenging team situations, is expounded
Group Supervision: Notes for Beginners, by Michael Paterson and Liz Crumlish, reviewed by Matthew Rhodes
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Post-Traumatic Jesus: A Healing Gospel for the Wounded, by David W. Peters, Reviewed by Joshua T. Morris
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Friendship as Formation Across Cultures, Centering the Marginalized
Full text linkIn this article, we share authentically from our own experiences of tasting” heaving on earth,” centering the margins as a place of richness and weaving in scholarly work with practical implications. The margins are experiences, encounters, exploration of spiritual development that occur organically. Usually, they are an afterthought during formal education and spiritual formation, and yet they are spaces where divine and human energies meet. We hold up friendship as an illustrative example. We would go so far as to posit that the “margins” are often labeled as such because those who do not belong to or understand it have exerted power (and in some cases, injustice and oppression) by giving a name for that which is not their primary domain. Yet in our Christian tradition, heaven is described as a place where “every tribe and tongue and nation” worship God together. Moreover, Christian discipleship has been predicated on the friendship of the first apostles, and through apostolic succession extended to the entire human race through friendship with and from Christ. 
Essence Seeing in Reflective Practice
Full text linkThis article probes the question “What is essential in the program of supervised ministry to help students develop as reflective ministers?” The author employs Richard Osmer’s reflection method to describe and reflect upon theological field education in San Antonio, Texas, during the COVID-19 pandemic
Testimony of a Spiritual Director
No full textThis article introduces the calling and practice of Spiritual Direction and the contemplative benefits for those in ministry and chaplaincy. The author then discusses how persons on the margins of our community benefit from this ancient practice, encouraging the offering to those who otherwise would not have the opportunity
SECTION 3: LILLY ENDOWMENT PATHWAY GRANT REFLECTIONS: Introduction
No full textEach school takes on the particularities of its own denomination’s or school’s traditions or tenets. Another common thread is the collaborative effort at the heart of these programs. Each program is student centered. Another common thread is the collaborative effort at the heart of these programs. Field education is a collaborative educational pedagogy. Each of these innovative and broad-thinking grants are still unfolding. Each article in this section offers specific insights which can inspire adaptations and adjustments that might just lead you around the next bend in theological field education.