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: 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,…