Crossing thresholds : the making and remaking of a 21st-century college chaplain / Lucy A. Forster-Smith ; foreword by Martin B. Copenhaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forster-Smith, Lucy A., author.

Contributor:

Copenhaver, Martin B., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College chaplains.

Church work with students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"With candor, passion, and deep love for her work, Lucy Forster-Smith takes us across the threshold as a chaplain on a college campus. This vocational narrative braids the story of her faith journey that began on a porch when she was a four-year-old, was shaken by a sexual assault as a seminarian, and through healing and grace brought her to claim a call to ministry with students. With delightful humor and an infectious love for her work, Forster-Smith invites the reader into her world. Crossing Thresholds is a theological narrative, weaving together the story of faith in the context of the professional life of a college chaplain. Lighting on the power of spiritual awakening at a college, once named as the number one institution of higher education that 'ignored God on a regular basis,' Forster-Smith jars loose the assumptions about the avowedly secular campus. Her journey of healing and grace illuminates and guides to cross the threshold of the campus's soul." from publisher's website.

Contents:

Beginnings

Opening the Door to the Chapel

Being Called

Knocking on Doors

Going Inside

Opening Doors of Hospitality

Care for the Soul

Thresholds that Support: Mentoring Young Spirits

Thresholds at the Margin: The Maverick

Thresholds of Grace

Thresholds of Surprise: Taken to New Places

Thresholds of Promise: Faring Well

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4982-7262-2