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April 2007
Volume 11, Number 2
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What Is a Chaplain? By Rev. John A. Fale I must admit that I was taken back a bit when I was asked to write an article for For the Life of the World, which is highlighting what a Lutheran chaplain brings to bear in the care of souls. |
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You Care! You Understand! By Rev. Dr. Richard C. Eyer Recently I sat with a friend in his living room listening to him talk about the sudden and unexpected death of his wife the night before. She had left the room to get ready for bed when he heard her collapse... |
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The Cure of Souls: Good for What Ails You By Rev. Dr. Harold L. Senkbeil Mention “healing” and most people think of physicians, the medical arts, and pharmacology. Yet increasingly medical personnel are broadening their horizons to think holistically about human health. |
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Speaking the Absolution in the Face of Illness By Rev. John T. Pless Martin Luther once noted that the subject matter of lawyers is justice, of physicians it is medicine, but of pastors it is sinful humanity and a gracious God. When pastors go to the hospital they go not as therapists or clinicians, but as shepherds entrusted with the speaking of words that kill and heal. |
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From Soldier to Seminary By Jayne E. Sheafer Russ Dewell was already used to being a soldier, but in a different army, when he decided it was time to attend the seminary. He went from serving in the United States Army to preparing to serve in “God’s Army” by studying to become a pastor. |
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Physician for the Soul By Jayne E. Sheafer He’s on call 24 hours a day, people are coming to him for answers and comfort, he dispenses what they need to be healed . . . are we describing a doctor or a pastor? |
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Seminarians Complete Second Mercy Mission Expedition to Madagascar By Rev. John T. Pless I have never seen such dedication and compassion as that exemplified by pastors, teachers, doctors, nurses, and workers in the Malagasy Lutheran Church,” commented Nathan Raddatz after returning from the second Mercy Mission Expedition to Madagascar funded by The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod’s Board for World Relief and Human Care. |
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