Crossing thresholds
Subtitle: the making and remaking of a 21st-century college chaplain
By: Lucy A. Forster-Smith ; foreword by Martin B. Copenhaver
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781625641328
Subjects: Church work with students; College chaplains
Description: "With candor, passion, and deep love for her work, Lucy Forster-Smith takes us across the threshold as a chaplain on a college campus. This vocational narrative braids the story of her faith journey that began on a porch when she was a four-year-old, was shaken by a sexual assault as a seminarian, and through healing and grace brought her to claim a call to ministry with students. With delightful humor and an infectious love for her work, Forster-Smith invites the reader into her world.  Crossing Thresholds is a theological narrative, weaving together the story of faith in the context of the professional life of a college chaplain. Lighting on the power of spiritual awakening at a college, once named as the number one institution of higher education that 'ignored God on a regular basis,' Forster-Smith jars loose the assumptions about the avowedly secular campus. Her journey of healing and grace illuminates and guides to cross the threshold of the campus's soul."  from publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 141).
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Opening the Door to the Chapel; title: Being Called; title: Knocking on Doors; title: Going Inside; title: Opening Doors of Hospitality; title: Care for the Soul; title: Thresholds that Support: Mentoring Young Spirits; title: Thresholds at the Margin: The Maverick; title: Thresholds of Grace; title: Thresholds of Surprise: Taken to New Places; title: Thresholds of Promise: Faring Well