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Register Now for May Online Seminars
The Oates Institute is offering five online seminars during May and now is the time to register to participate. The seminars that run from May 7-25, include:
- Care at the End of Life
- Hope and Wholeness
- Human Values and Health Care
- Ministry to Families Living with Mental Illness
- Ministry with Bereaved Parents
These seminars feature the Oates Institute's online Connected Learning approach and each offers 12 contact hours of continuing professional education credit.
Spring Forum May 20 on "Growing Spiritually through the Transitions of Aging"
The Wayne E. Oates Institute invites you to join us for a Spring Forum to be held on Tuesday, May 20, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM. The Reverend Doctor Georgine Buckwalter will speak on Growing Spiritually through the Transitions of Aging.
Dr. Buckwalter is an Episcopal priest and the Director of Pastoral Care at the Episcopal Church Home in Louisville, Kentucky. She is a beloved chaplain and priest as well as a popular speaker known for her energy and passion. This forum and Dr. Buckwalter’s expertise in the area of aging and pastoral care will benefit pastors, counselors, chaplains, congregational laity, and anyone who seeks to grow spiritually through life’s transitions, including the aging process.
This forum will be held at Deer Park Baptist Church, 1733 Bardstown Road (Located between Douglass Blvd and Eastern Pkwy). The cost is $20 per person and a box lunch is provided.
Please R.S.V.P. by Friday, May 16, to reserve your space. Call the Wayne E. Oates Institute at 502-459-2370.
There is convenient parking behind the church and easy first floor access directly into the building from the parking lot.
New Book by Paul Simmons, Faith and Health,
Added to Oates Institute Bookstore
Longtime Oates Institute member and medical ethicist, Dr. Paul Simmons, has a new book that we have just added to the Oates Institute Online Bookstore. The book, Faith and Health: Religion, Science, and Public Policy, recently published by Mercer Press, uses the backdrop of the Terri Schiavo case to reflect on how religion, politics, law, and science converge in society's debates around bioethics. The book lists for $30 and may be purchased through the Oates Institute's Amazon Affiliated Bookstore for only $22.80.
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Bonus: An Oates Journal Featured Article
"False Hope in the ICU"
by Paul Simmons
"It is virtually a truism to say that hope is a vital part of the healing process" wrote Dr. Paul Simmons in this previously published Oates Journal article. "Even so," he notes, "optimistic outlooks often mask a false hope, which manifests itself in a variety of ways. False hope often goes unacknowledged by those most involved in clinical settings. And it receives scant attention in religious and secular literature."
In this article, Dr. Simmons explores the meaning of false hope along with its origins and manifestations in the clinical setting. He suggests theological and ethical responses to such phenomena with the aim of sorting out the biblical-theological grounds for Christian hope and discerning the difference between hope that is sustaining and genuine versus hope that is futile and false.
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