SECTION 1: ACPE

Seven articles written by ACPE educators describing their professional work in ACPE in challenging areas

SECTION 1: ACPE

Introduction to articles related to ACPE

Liberative Learning: A look at CPE through the Lens of Black Feminist and Womanist Theology

In this brief essay, I want to reflect upon Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) from the vantage point of Black feminist and womanist theology by referencing several key Black feminist and womanist theologians and scholars. My thesis is that Black feminist and womanist theology offers a helpful framework for understanding the work of CPE, which is largely a process of adult transformation and learning

Transforming Trauma into Trust: A Prophetic Model of CPE Supervision in the Age of #Black Lives Matter

#BlackLivesMatter is a recently developed social and political movement that is mainly identified as a medium for bringing attention to the murder of unarmed black people by police and vigilantes. However, the movement seeks to highlight how black people are left “powerless” and “deprived of our basic human rights and dignity.”1 The #BlackLivesMatter movement speaks to how African Americans currently live in a climate of “state violence”

Caring for the African American "S.E.L.F." in CPE Supervision during Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Police Brutality

Caring for Afican American S.E.L.F. in CPE supervisio

SECTION 3: PRACTICAL THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL IMAGINATION: Editors' Introduction

The role of imagination in practical theology and pastoral imaginatio