PlainViews^® is a bi-weekly electronic newsletter written primarily by and for professional healthcare chaplains and other spiritual care providers. Taking advantage of the community building powers of the internet, The Chaplaincy created this e-forum in February 2004 for pastoral caregivers all over the world, which encourages the sharing of information and a regular exchange of views and perspectives on clinical care, best practices, advocacy, ethics, spiritual development, and pastoral education and research.

With a diverse readership of more than 7,400 subscribers from around the world, PlainViews is helping to advance multifaith professional chaplaincy with discussions of issues presented in plain language. Features include “Talkback,” which provide readers with the opportunity to respond to PlainViews articles or other topics of interest, and “CaseConference,” which enables readers to learn about difficult situations at other healthcare sites and comment.

As one subscriber recently put it, PlainViews “binds together the spiritual care giving community with a cord that can never be broken.”

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