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The Practice of Caring Well
(Speller)
1. In Julia Spelling’s story of caring for her elderly father, she draws
upon insights from which book?
a. A Caregiver’s Survival Guide -- How to Stay Healthy When Your
Loved
One is Sick by Kay Marshall Strom
b. Caring for Aging Loved Ones edited by Henry Holstege and
Robert Riekse
c. Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring
by Henri J. M. Nouwen
d. Pastoral Care of Older Adults by Harold G. Koenig and
Andrew J. Weaver2. For caregivers, “caring well” means
to
a. acknowledge their own limitations.
b. ask for help from others.
c. recognize God’s presence in ordinary rituals.
d. all of the above.
Watch with Me (Peachy)
3. In Wendell Berry’s book That Distant Land, Tol and his
friends helped keep Nightlife alive by ____. This assured Nightlife that he
was loved by his community.
a. clever persuasion.
b. wrestling away his gun.
c. following him around.
d. getting him some professional help.
Called and Trained (Tucker)
4. Those receiving spiritual direction are often tired and fatigued because
a. they don’t know how to nourish themselves.
b. they are sleep-deprived.
c. they have poor boundaries.
d. they have unconfessed sin
Strategic Practices for Communal Formation and Renewal (Jeffries)
5. As a basis for training Christians who then train other Christians,
the author refers to
a. the Graduate Christian Fellowship group at the University of
Minnesota.
b. the example of the apostle Paul, who trained Timothy and exhorted him
to train others. (II Timothy 2:2)
c. Mark Schwehn, who authored Exiles from Eden.
d. the Valparaiso Project at the University of Dubuque.
Creativity as a Christian Spiritual Practice (Painter/Wyatt)
6. A method of praying and imagining the sights, smells, and sounds of a
Scripture passage was developed by
a. Hildegard of Bingen
b. Ignatius of Loyola
c. Rollo May
d. Maxine Greene
7. The authors encourage all Christians toward which practice of
prayer?
a. setting our prayers to music and song.
b. expressing our prayers through the visual arts.
c. culminating our prayers in an ecstasy of emotion.
d. recognizing God’s connection to every mundane thing we do.
Urban CPE (Rude/Narum/Harris)
8. Jennette Rude’s paper was about an ongoing ministry to
a. an elderly person in a rest home.
b. a terminally ill child in a hospital.
c. a homeless person on a street corner.
d. an ex-convict looking for a job.
9. Kent Narum believes that finding practical ways to release people
ensnared in the cycles of debt and poverty is following the Biblical
principle of
a. Passover.
b. the Sabbath Year and Jubilee.
c. the Festival of Booths.
d. the Day of Atonement.
One Small Step (Hunter)
10. Friedrich Ast’s contribution to hermeneutics, the discipline of
interpreting the Scriptures, was to
a. avoid misunderstanding the text. (Friedrich Schleiermacher)
b. recreate the original intention of the author.
c. adhere to traditional interpretations.
d. include the humanities and sciences. (Wilhelm Dilthey) |