Blessings for Students

"""As an organization committed to advancing the field of higher education chaplaincy and supporting chaplains, we are thrilled an additional resource of interfaith blessings and prayers exists. This book encapsulates Janet Fuller's decades of higher education chaplaincy, her dedication to interfaith work, and her deep love for students. This inclusive, passionate, and sacred book will be a useful tool for countless chaplains."" * Board of Directors, Association for Chaplaincy and Spiritual Life in Higher Education (ACSLHE) * I've known Jan for several years as a chaplain at a a major university in North Carolina. She is a deeply wise and spiritually centered person, and these prayers and blessings that come from her heart will be a great gift to both students and chaplains alike. * Michael B Curry, Presiding Bisho of the Episcopal Church and author of Love is the Way and The Power of Love * Jan Fuller brings her exquisite craft, her deep wisdom and her wide-ranging interfaith experience together in this book of prayers. May this beautiful text help spiritual life become an essential part of the college experience for the whole campus. * Eboo Patel, founder and president, Interfaith America * This volume contains a master class in multifaith college chaplaincy, taught by one of the greats in the field. I have already begun using it in my teaching of Jewish seminarians. * Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, associate professor emiritus of Religious Studis at Reconstructionst Rabbinical College * A beautiful meditation on the power of naming and the opportunity to reflect deeply, across all axes of differences, on college and university campuses today. * Wendy Cadge, professor of sociology, Brandeis University and author of Spiritual Care: The Everyday Work of Chaplains * The gift of Dr. Jan Fuller’s words to inspire other Chaplains and those called on to provide blessings on campus will be a wonderful resource. Blessings is a powerful teaching tool for all those who find themselves at the microphone with a desire to be inclusive and share the impactful presence of love in our work on college campuses. * Dr Connie Book, President of Elon University * Jan’s prayers are truly exceptional. This book gives college and university leaders and chaplains an extraordinary resource. When you are trying to find the right words for important campus celebrations or devastating community losses, this is an invaluable resource, as well as inspiration for your own spiritual centering. * Nancy Oliver Gray, president emerita, Hollins University * May the blessings in this marvelous volume be heard by all those who deserve them—which is all of us. The two prayers 'A Vision for a New Class' and 'For the Wonder of Music' alone are enough to have the volume open on your desk or nightstand and there are many, many more within. * Bill Gordh, director of expressive arts and chapel at The Episcopal School in the City of New York and author of Building a Children's Chapel: One Story at a Time * Speaking sacred words in religiously diverse and secular spaces is one of the persistent challenges of contemporary higher education chaplaincy. not only are Fuller's blessings inclusive and adaptable, they're also rhetorically elegant—a wonderful resource for the field! * Adam Kirtley, interfaith chaplain of Whitman College *"