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Editor Lawrence E. Holst collects essays from contributors with diverse backgrounds—12 staff chaplains from the division of pastoral care at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, a research psychologist, an ethicist, a church historian, and a substance abuse expert. Their stories, originally compiled in the mid-eighties and reprinted in 2006, provide a multifaceted look at ministry...

* LAWRENCE E. HOLST If the hospital is a place of paradox for its patients, it is not less so for its chaplains. However, the paradox is experienced in somewhat different ways. That paradox or tension is most dynamically experienced in the dual identity of the chaplain. The hospital chaplain walks between two worlds: religion and medicine. To put it in more political language, between two monolithic structures: the church and the hospital. Each world, or structure,
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