Book Review: Wonjong Choi, 바다행전 [Acts of the Sea]. Kookmin Books, 2022.

Review by Jason Zuidema (NAMMA/ICMA) Wonjong Choi opens his autobiography fittingly with the words, “All my life, I have only thought of the sea, ships and seafarers.” (6). Choi founded the Korean Seonwon (pn. ‘sun-on’) Mission in the mid-1970s, and became an inspiration for other Koreans to take seafarers’ ministry into ports around the world…

Article notice – Thomas Cave Childs: Pioneer chaplain to female emigrants and the Missions to Seamen

Fr. Robert Miller has published a new article on an important early figure in maritime ministry in The Mariner’s Mirror journal. Miller, long a member of the Society for Nautical Research, has published several books on the work of the church and the merchant seafarer from the earliest Christian centuries until the nineteenth century. He…

Book Review: Vom Wartesaal zwischen den Meeren zum modernen Seefahrerzentrum

by Jason Zuidema, ICMA/NAMMA Christiane Sengebusch, Vom Wartesaal zwischen den Meeren zum modernen Seefahrerzentrum: Chronik der Deutschen Seemannsmission Westküste e.V., Brunsbüttel, 2020. 60pp. This small hardcover volume traces the history of the Deutschen Seemannsmission Westküste in Brunsbüttel, Germany. Written by Christiane Sengebusch, the book helps understand the growth and development of this seafarers mission organization…

Remembering Chaplain Wally Ceadarleaf

Image: (Paul Connell/Globe Staff/File 1979) From The Globe, February 7, 2010. The Rev. Wallace E. Cedarleaf retired as Boston Harbor chaplain 17 years ago, but he is vividly recalled along the waterfront and among the thousands of seamen of foreign vessels that docked here during his 25-year tenure. “Wally was bigger-than-life. Everyone who knew him…