Mary Clark Moschella

Nov 4, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Mary Clark Moschella

Welcome to this Issue 34:2 of the Journal of Pastoral Theology. In this issue we have a variety of articles that address the pastoral and spiritual care of diverse groups of people. These articles address the meaning of care and the complex processes of forging connections between, among, and within us.

Feb 16, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Elizabeth Felicetti |Aaron Stauffer |Amy Frykholm |Mary Clark Moschella

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. The second part of this Sunday’s gospel reading describes the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry proclaiming the good news and calling people to repent. This begins, however, after the arrest of John the Baptist. What kind of crisis must that have caused?

Feb 13, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Aaron Stauffer |Mary Clark Moschella |Debie Thomas |Philip Jenkins

Chaplain Angela Song, right, places ashes on the forehead of surgeon Michele Carpenter at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California, in February 2023. ( AP Photo / Jae C. Hong) Inside the vast, dimly lit chapel, I stand beside a stool that holds Q-tips, a number ticker, and a small jar of ash. The chapel is musty and dark, its stained-glass windows allowing little light to permeate the pews. It lacks a cross, bimah, or any other particular faith marker.

Feb 13, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Jon Fosse |Aaron Stauffer |Mary Clark Moschella |Debie Thomas

Jon Fosse, a Norwegian novelist and playwright who just won the Nobel Prize for literature, begins his new novella, A Shining, in a way that evokes the opening lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy. The first-person narrator wanders away from familiar paths and gets lost in a dark wood. It is the beginning of one man’s journey toward God, a pilgrimage from darkness to light. Fosse, an advocate for what he calls “slow prose,” allows his luminous narrative to unfold at a dreamlike pace.

Feb 12, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Debie Thomas |Daniel Schultz |Philip Jenkins |Mary Clark Moschella

British photographer, writer, and volunteer Alex Holmes frequently spends his free time at the impromptu Eritrean refugee camp in Calais, France, where he talks with the young men gathered there. These men have escaped from what the Global Slavery Index calls the “highest prevalence of modern slavery across Africa (and the second in the world).” They are trying to get to the United Kingdom, where they believe there is hope for a better life.