Previously published in the MARE Report (2015). There is no doubt that Roald Kverndal (1921-2015) made an enormous contribution to seafarers’ welfare as a chaplain, a mission board executive, historian, theologian, author and advocate. His service to seafarers and those who serve them extended from the beginning of his preparations for ministry in the early…
Book Review: The Liquidation of the Church
Kees de Groot, The Liquidation of the Church. New York: Routledge, 2018. 191pp. In many popular venues we hear either that religion is dying out or that personal spirituality is becoming the norm. Professor Kees de Groot argues that both of these ideas are inadequate understandings of religion in modern Western societies. De Groot is…
Book Review: A Christian Theology of Chaplaincy
John Caperon, Andrew Todd and James Walters, ed. A Christian Theology of Chaplaincy. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017. 176pp. This book is a collection of essays originally presented at a symposium on chaplaincy at Westcott House, Cambridge in April 2015. The editors and most of the presenters in the volume are associated with the Church of…
Book Review: Multifaith Chaplaincy in the Workplace
Fiona Stewart-Darling, Multifaith Chaplaincy in the Workplace: How Chaplains Can Support Organizations and their Employees. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017. 176pp. This book is a case study in building a workplace chaplaincy program. Fiona Stewart-Darling, an Anglican priest, explains the history and formation of the chaplaincy program she has led in the Canary Wharf district of…
Book Review: Sailors’ Society, 200 Stories from the Sea, 1818-2018
Nick Churchill, Melanie Warman, Charis Gibson, and James Leslie. 200 Stories from the Sea, 1818-2018. Southampton: Sailors’ Society, 2018. This is a commemorative book with 200 short vignettes about the work of the Sailors’ Society on the occasion of its 200th birthday. The source of most of the stories is the Society’s magazine, Chart & Compass founded in 1879,…