Faith & Learning

Volume 22, Number 4 Fall 2005

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Personal or group study ideas.
Read the articles, choose your questions!

Spirituality and Mysticism:
Read Grypma, pp. 6-13.
a. How would you describe the difference between salvation and a unitive state with the divine?
b. Examine John 1:1-14, 15:1-4 and 17:20-23; Ephesians 4:1-6. According to these passages, what characterizes the unity we experience with God? How is this different from viewing all things as "one" with God?
c. Read Job 38:1-7. What do you think was God's purpose for questioning Job about the creation of the world? How does Job's encounter with God relate to efforts at redefining God today?
d. Nightingale rejected the idea of the Trinity, that God is one and yet exists as three persons -- Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Scan several of the following Scriptures: Gen 1:26, 3:22, 11:7; Is 6:8; Jn 1:1-3, 5, 14:16-17, 15:26, 16:13-15, 16:27-28, 17:1. How is God described in the verses your read?

Compassionate Intervention:
Read Lohri-Posey, pp. 34-37.
a. Explore one or more of these incidents in Scripture where Jesus experienced compassion: Mt 9:36-38, 15:32, 20:29-34; Mk 1:40-42; Lk 7:22-24. Delineate the specific steps involved every time Jesus felt compassion? How does this apply to your nursing practice?
b. Read 2 Cor 1:3-5. How does this passage describe one way God comforts people who are in distress?

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3 What Failure Taught Me - Editorial

6 Florence Nightingale's Changing Image? Part 2: From Saint to Fiend to Modern Mystic
Sonya Grypma

Nightingale has been characterized as model Christian, self-serving fiend and spiritual mystic. Are any of these accurate? Is Nightingale still a valuable symbol for nursing?

16 Cyber Classrooms: Building Christian Community
Kimberly R. Meyer and Joann P. Wessman

Developing community among learners is vital to education; Christian community is integral to spiritual growth. What happens to community when face-to-face contact is lost?

22 Is Faith-Based E-Learning Possible?
Sonia R. Strevy

Can faith be integrated with learning in on-line, distance education?

25 Hymns, Hard Rock and Handmade Ruges: Teaching Outside the Box
Barbara Taylor

Can nontraditional, artistic teaching strategies enhance learning or prepare new grads for the tough world of practice? See what one educator is doing to stimulate creataivity!

28 When a Student Fails...
Barbara Pesut and Heather Meyerhoff

No one expects it, but it happens...clinical failure. Two seasoned educators offer compassionate, biblical counsel to instructors and students

34 Becoming a Compassionate Healer
Brenda Lohri-Posey

Why are some students (and nurses) preoccupied with nursing tasks and disease processes, while others become compassionate healers and readily create healing occasions?

40 Christian Nursing Schools in North America

Looking for a Christian school of nursing that can meet your needs? Check this list of schools offering undergraduate, RN-BS and graduate degress, onsite and online!

Departments

5 Etc.

38 Practicing

Washing Dirty Feet
Debra Drake

39 FAQs in Spritiual Care

What About My Spiritual Needs?
Mary T. Sweat

43 Advertising

45 Resources

Nightingale, Telecommunications, Nursing Practice

48 PulseBeats

Robotics to the Rescue, Head Start on Nursing Career?