Spiritual Care as Creative Interruption: Exploring a Generative Metaphor for Intercultural Healthcare Chaplaincy

Public healthcare institutions are increasingly culturally diverse, creating ethical challenges that arise from the complexities of competing values and beliefs. The ethical responsibility of chaplains to provide spiritual care in diverse healthcare contexts necessitates a re-visioning of deeply held beliefs and practices that prioritize togetherness and mutual understanding over engaging difference. Creative interruption as a theological metaphor for spiritual care can serve as a generative framework for engaging the cultural and religious other in the context of healthcare chaplaincy and education, building on the recent work of pastoral theologians concerned with intercultural care (Doehring, 2010, 2012, 2015; Lartey, 2003, 2006). A critical correlation method brings key concepts from the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and theologian Gordon Kaufman into dialogue with intercultural and interreligious clinical vignettes. Insights from Levinas provide a philosophical foundation for conceiving of care as interruptive and necessarily dislocating for the chaplain and spiritual care educator. Engaging the field of applied Levinasian theory, the phenomena of alterity; the face of the other; and the saying and the said are explored in the context of spiritual care vignettes. The humanizing role of chaplaincy includes a consideration of making the invisible visible and privileging the wisdom of love over the medical system’s love of wisdom. Gordon Kaufman’s theology of God as creativity rather than Creator further contributes to a conception of care as a creative and interruptive coming-to-being. Creative interruption as a metaphor for spiritual care engages a Kaufmanian understanding of creativity as the often serendipitous emergence of the new and novel through the ongoing creative and interruptive evolution of the world. Creative interruption as a guiding metaphor invites a consideration of the interruptive movement and mystery of creativity as generative and necessary for spiritual care and spiritual care education. Creative interruption as a generative metaphor can inform spiritual care as a dynamic and emergent process by which the divine is made known through engagement with otherness

Feasibility Study of Solar Generation Facilities: Are CCR Landfills A Viable Location

this report will examine the feasibility of constructing and operating a solar generation facility on a coal combustion residual landfill. The total generation capabilities of a generation facility located near Nashville, Tennessee will be compared to the total cost of construction, including but not limited to Photo-voltaic panels, construction materials and labor

A Uses and Gratifications Analysis of Traditional Radio Strategies to Engage Listeners

Using the framework of the Uses and Gratifications theory, this study explores strategies that radio hosts use to engage traditional radio listeners. The analysis aims to understand the intent of radio jocks\u27 words, categorizing what they say into different uses and gratifications: positive mood management, diversion, negative mood management, interpersonal relationships, personal identity, and surveillance. Through a content analysis of leading Philadelphia radio stations across a range of genres and time slots, 15 hours of radio were coded, five different genres within different time frames of the day. The analysis provides insight into the relationship between broadcasters and their audience by showing the most common uses and gratifications across various radio formats and time segments. These results are important for professionals within the media field, navigating the changing media landscape, specifically in understanding the relevance of traditional radio, especially the growth of digital streaming services and convergent media platforms

Business was a Family Affair: Women of Commerce in Central Europe, 1650-1880

Although the mercantile activities of German women reflected a tradition dating from the high Middle Ages, the formal sanction of women’s exchange privileges was a relatively recent phenomenon. Pre-modern economic factors established the commercial agency of German businesswomen and promoted family-based enterprise in Germany’s modern economic growth. In the seventeenth century the family firm emerged as the fundamental institution of Germany’s economic elite. The interlocking interests of family patrimony and the firm’s continuity created a special niche for the business widow, legally secured by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century exchange codes. Recent social history on Germany’s nineteenth-century middle classes has begun to identify the roles of women merchants, especially in retail trade, and family-based enterprise in Germany’s modern industrial expansion. As in the pre-modern period, the women of middling family businesses played management roles and sometimes assumed control as widows. The “separate spheres” ideology, relegating women to house and home, was a prescriptive ideal with relatively little influence on the women of modest family retail and manufacturing firms. Thus the pre-modern practices of family-based enterprise shaped the legal and social structures within which women continued to exercise an important economic function into the twentieth century.Si les activités mercantiles des femmes allemandes témoignaient d’une tradition du Moyen Âge, la sanction formelle des privilèges d’échange des femmes était un phénomène relativement récent. Des facteurs économiques prémodernes ont établi l’entremise commerciale des femmes d’affaires allemandes et promu l’entreprise de type familiale dans la croissance économique moderne de l’Allemagne. Au XVIIe siècle, l’entreprise familiale est apparue comme l’institution fondamentale de l’élite économique allemande. La solidarité d’intérêts du patrimoine familial et de la continuité de l’entreprise créèrent un créneau spécial pour la veuve d’affaires, légalement garanti par les codes d’échange des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. L’histoire sociale des classes moyennes de l’Allemagne du XIXe siècle a commencé récemment à cir- conscrire les rôles des femmes marchandes, surtout dans le commerce de détail, et de l’entreprise familiale dans l’expansion industrielle moderne de l’Allemagne. Comme durant la période prémoderne, les femmes des entreprises familiales à performance moyenne jouaient des rôles de gestion et en assumaient parfois, devenues veuves, le contrôle. L’idéologie des « sphères distinctes », reléguant les femmes à la maison et au foyer, était un idéal prescriptif influençant peu les femmes d’entreprises familiales modestes du détail et détail et de la fabrication. Ainsi, les pratiques prémodernes de l’entreprise familiale ont façonné les structures légales et sociales à l’intérieur desquelles les femmes ont continué d’exercer une fonction économique importante jusqu’au XXe siècle

Graziano Savà and Mauro Tosco, An Annotated Edition of Father G. Toselli’s Dizi Grammar

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Athenian Choral Institutions and Plato\u27s Ideal Polis

This paper discusses the role of choral institutions in Plato’s ideal polis. In the fourth century BC, choral competitions were a key site of political discourse in Athens, exposing the conflicts inherent to the use of aristocratic patronage in a democratic system. As the demos embraced new musical practices, aristocrats critiqued these changes as a proxy for their opposition to democracy itself. Plato, operating firmly within the aristocratic tradition, placed choral education at the center of his ideal polis as a means to restore and cultivate aristocratic power. However, he also sought to use choral music as a means to rise beyond the aristocratic past, tempering power and honor with moderation and wisdom. His musical program acted as a means of social control, a clarification of social status, and a tool for moral formation of citizens, re-solidifying the aristocracy while transcending its faults

Brookshire Wealth Management Practicum

Senior market is growing and becoming more valuable in terms of asset value and income. The ACA created Insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, in order to provide one stop for easily accessible healthcare insurance for any party or individual. The ACA mandated that most individuals have, and certain employers offer health insurance. Importance of ethics and having a solid ethical mindset when dealing with health insurance. Health Reimbursement Arrangements were created to provide small employers a means of giving health insurance benefits and cost assistance to their employees. Businesses can provide alternatives to traditional group health insurance plans

Tomorrow Our Seeds Will Grow: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and the Changing Landscape of Hip-Hop

The release of Lauryn Hill’s 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was a watershed moment in the history of hip-hop and the intersection between music and race. On this album, Hill created a narrative that embraced Black love, attempted to educate audiences, and drew on Black musical heritage, elevating Black womanhood and nuancing perceptions of Blackness in American culture. Through musical and lyrical analysis, this paper explores the importance of Miseducation\u27s narrative within the cultural milieu of the late 1990s and its continuing impact on hip-hop and Black American culture