Eileen R. Campbell-Reed, Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life

Reviewed by Marcus Hon

Mentoring for Flourishing in Ministry

The authors section titles gives an overview of what she has written about. "My Stories of Mentoring", "Learning at the Heart of Mentoring",  "Definitions of Flourishing", "Women's Leadership Initiative MDiv Program", and "Key Practices of Mentoring for Flourishing"

The Unfolding of Pastoral Imagination

Over the last decade “pastoral imagination” has served as a provocative center for discussions about what makes for faithful and wise pastoral leadership. This essay is organized around two stories of ministry: a student in clinical pastoral training and a senior pastor of a large congregation. Their stories instantiate and characterize the use of pastoral imagination as prudenceunfolding over the long arc of learning the practice of ministry. The stories are case studies drawn from the Learning Pastoral Imagination (LPI) Project, a national study of learning ministry seeking to understand instances of pastoral imagination, articulate how it is learned, and say why it matters for the complex context of ministry in the twenty-first century

The Learning Pastoral Imagination Project: A Ten-Year Overview

How Pastoral Imagination is learned. How is it taught. A ten year study

Acute effects of alcohol on inhibition

This thesis set out to investigate whether individual differences in concentrations of the neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) could predict the extent of alcohol induced impairment to measures of behavioural inhibition. However, investigations in to the reliability of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) methods to measure GABA, and of the stop signal reaction time (SSRT) demonstrated that neither measure was sufficiently reliable to be used in correlational research. Instead, this thesis first investigated the effects of alcohol on neuronal oscillations measured by magnetoencephalography (MEG) in the gamma frequency band that are associated with GABA. In response to a visual stimulus alcohol was found to increase gamma power and decrease gamma frequency in the visual cortex. In response to a motor stimulus increases in gamma power were also observed over the motor cortex whilst intoxicated. During resting state recordings alcohol was found to increase power in central, parietal and occipital areas across a number of frequency bands and also to alter activity across functional resting state networks including the fronto-parietal, visual and motor networks. Secondly, alcohol was found to impair behavioural inhibition in line with previous literature. However, this effect was smaller than expected and did not extend from the manual response domain to saccadic responses. It was also found that the stop signal task was not exclusively measuring behavioural inhibition where alcohol also affected action-updating abilities. In the saccadic version of the stop signal task it was found that a saccadic inhibition effect was also present indicating top-down behavioural inhibition is aided by bottom-up automatic inhibition. Altogether this body of work provides a basis for future research wishing to investigate the relationship between acute effects of alcohol on GABAergic functioning and impulsivity in order to better inform intervention and prevention treatments

Diagnosis, surgical treatment, and management of borderline ovarian surface epithelial neoplasms: Report of 2 cases and review of literature

AbstractOvarian borderline surface epithelial neoplasms occur infrequently in the pediatric population. Preoperative diagnostic criteria include ultrasound and serum tumor markers with definitive diagnosis made on pathologic examinations intraoperatively. Treatment typically involves resection of the tumor with an emphasis on preserving fertility. Patients diagnosed with borderline tumors generally have a good prognosis; however the possibility of recurrence remains. Two cases of 15 year-old females with borderline ovarian tumors are presented that add to the current literature by highlighting the diagnosis, clinical management, and follow-up postoperatively

Excellence in Supervision: Practical Wisdom from Supervisors/Mentors

This essay summarizes and critiques the types of training and support provided to site supervisors, as summarized by a survey of AFTE members