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3 Editorial (full text)

6 Biblical Caring Comes Full Circle
Lisa Trafecanty
In nursing, caring evolved from being based on Christ’s command to care for the needy, to science-based to holistic caring.What is biblical caring today?

ZEROING IN ON CHRISTIAN CARING

14 Finding Your Model of Caring Practice
Elizabeth Ann Davis Lee
Learn how to uncover your personal model of caring.

REVISITING NIGHTINGALE: DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES

A Nightingale scholar, a nurse historian and a theologian respond to “Florence Nightingale’s Changing Image?” (JCN, 22, no 3, 4).Their differing interpretatons present an opportunity to examine our beliefs.

26 Why Revisit Nightingale?
Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner

27 A Response to Grypma & Commentary on Mysticism
Barbara Montgomery Dossey

32 Nightingale the Person—Not the Symbol
Sonya Grypma

34 A Christian Mysticism?
Dallas Willard

MISSIONS
38 God Had Other Plans
Larissa Funk
This nursing student discovered God - and herself - in a gritty, inner-city Chicago clinic.