Curricular essay demonstrates that slow media such as print literature fosters attentiveness in graduate ministry students, suggesting benefits for pastoral care in digital contexts.
Using slow media such as print literature in ministerial formation develops skills of attentiveness and agency for emerging pastoral ministers. In a digital context, fostering these skills and dispositions benefits ministers in formation to bring a mindful and intentional presence to pastoral ministry and pastoral care. Showcasing a literature-based assignment from a graduate-level pastoral ministry class, this essay explores how reading literature has a formative impact on ministry students developing these skills and dispositions.
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