A Clergy Guide to End-of-Life Issues

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Martha Jacobs

128 PP | 5.5" x 8.5"
Paper
ISBN: 978-0-8298-1859-8

This book will provide even experienced clergy with more tools to help families navigate end-of-life issues and a graceful death. It will give guidance to ministers who are still struggling with personal, professional, and spiritual growth around end-of-life issues. And, for those in pastoral training, it offers the foundational understanding about end-of-life issues so they can put their own issues around death and dying aside to assist others in charting their own course through life's end.

 

On April 11, 2010, Jacobs received the Anton Boisen Professional Service Award from the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). Each year, APC recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of chaplaincy care through its Annual Leadership Awards. The Anton Boisen Professional Service Award is named in honor of a pioneer in chaplaincy and clinical pastoral education. The award is given to a board certified chaplain of APC who demonstrates a commitment to excellence in professional chaplaincy and has offered a unique contribution to contemporary chaplaincy care.

Martha Jacobs, Author

Martha Jacobs is a board member of the Association of Professional Chaplains and associate director of pastoral education, community based programs. She is managing editor of PlainViews at The HealthCare Chaplaincy in New York City and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.

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Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder, Senior Pastor, City of Refuge UCC

Jacobs has addressed one of the most important areas of pastoral care—the need to help people and their families experience a ‘good death’….helps clergy with the importance of a positive, hope-filled theology around an inevitable and at times blessed life passage.

Margaret E. Mohrmann, M.D., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Among many appropriate descriptors of this book—thorough, well-informed, accessible, compassionate, wise—first on the list is ‘essential’. Seminary students should study it together, and it should be presented to clergy as a vital component of their continuing education.

Dale T. Irvin, President and Professor of World Christianity, New York Theological Seminary

This book needs to be on every pastor’s shelf, in front of the funeral manual. It will guide them through a maze of clinical questions and profound ethical concerns to find the grace that lies hidden in even the most unexpected of places.

David H. Smith, Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Jacobs has built a book that is accessible, insightful, and enormously helpful to clergy who want to improve their ministries to the dying – and that is to all of us