Seeing With Bifocals: The Evolution of a Muslim Chaplain
Abstract
Muslims have problems, and yet there is no one educated to guide the community through grief, anger, death, dying, sickness toward wellness. Such guidance can be found throughout our sacred sources, which clearly articulate a pastoral theology of care based on compassion. That is why I believe that chaplaincy is very much as Islamic necessity that someone in every Muslim community must fulfill. We are in serious need of a missing lens.Downloads
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