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This episode features an interview with Suzanne Tindall, an interfaith minister, hospice chaplain, and Certified Spiritual Director. Our discussion presents a short introduction to spiritual direction and how it differs from other forms of spiritual care.
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Music Therapy and Spiritual Care
This episode features an interview with Kayla Sadowy, a music therapist who works with patients in hospice and other settings. We discuss how music therapy intersects with spiritual care, and how music can empower a patient ‘s spiritual journey.
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Spiritual Care and Religious Freedom Law
This episode features an interview with Pamela Ayo Yetunde, who discusses some of her most recent publications, including her newest book Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Law, and Womanist Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care.
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Religious Harm of Sexual and Gender Minorities
This episode features an interview with Charles Fensham, author of Misguided Love: Christians and the Rupture of LGBTQI2+ People. The book is published by the Journal of Pastoral Care Publications and discusses the history of harm toward sexual and gender minority Christians.
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Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
In this episode, we interview Russell Siler Jones who is developing the Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) program with ACPE. The program will help therapists increase their knowledge and skills for working with their clients’ spirituality, as well as helping therapists learn ethically appropriate ways of drawing upon their own spirituality in the therapeutic relationship. SIP is currently in its pilot stage, but you can sign up to learn more on the ACPE website.
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Transforming Chaplaincy and Chaplaincy Innovation
In this episode, we interview George Fitchett and Wendy Cadge, who discuss the Transforming Chaplaincy program, which is focused on creating and promoting quantitative and qualitative social science research for chaplaincy. Out of the Transforming Chaplaincy project, emerged the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab which is focused on chaplain education and training.
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