Book Review: Spiritual Care by Wendy Cadge
Review by Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Wendy Cadge. Spiritual Care: The Everyday Work of Chaplains. Oxford, 2023. 232pp. Wendy Cadge, Professor at Brandeis University and Founder of the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, wrote this book to understand who chaplains are, what they do, and how that
Book Review: The ILO Maritime Labor Convention, 2006 (MLC): Securing international social standards of seafarers’ working conditions
Review by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Janna Vaudey, Das ILO-Seearbeitsübereinkommen, 2006 (MLC): Sicherung der internationalen Sozialstandards von Arbeitsbedingungen der Seeleute. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2022. This German-language book is a revised edition of a doctoral dissertation submitted in 2020 in the Faculty of Law
Book Review: A Century at Kilindini: The Story of Mombasa’s Mission to Seafarers 1921-2021
Review by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Michael Sparrow, A Century at Kilindini: The Story of Mombasa’s Mission to Seafarers 1921-2021. Nairobi, 2021. This is the second edition of the story of the mission in Mombasa, a thoroughly revised edition of the book
Book Review: Care, Healing, and Human Well-Being within Interreligious Discourses
Review by Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Helmut Weiss, Karl H. Federschmidt, Daniël Louw, and Linda Sauer Bredvik, ed. Care, Healing, and Human Well-Being Within Interreligious Discourses. SIPCC, 2021. Care, Healing, and Human Well-Being within Interreligious Discourses is a collection of essays from a
Book Review: Case Studies in Chaplaincy
by Jason Zuidema, NAMMA Renske Kruisinga, Jacques Körver, Niels den Toom, Martin Walton, Martijn Stoutjesdijk, eds. Learning from Case Studies in Chaplaincy: Towards Practice Based Evidence & Professionalism. Eburon: Utrecht, 2020. This collection of essays on the value of case studies for chaplaincy
Book Review: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Colin Freeman
Colin Freeman, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Mission to Rescue the Hostages the World Forgot. Icon, 2021. A popular image might relegate piracy to the pages of history only. The Golden Age of Piracy in the late 17th and
Book Review: Foundations of Chaplaincy by Alan T. Baker
Alan T. Baker, Foundations of Chaplaincy: A Practical Guide. Eerdmans, 2021. Foundations of Chaplaincy by Alan T. Baker fills a gap in literature about chaplaincy that can benefit a wide range of readers, including those in maritime ministry. Though there are other
Book Review: Stella Maris in the Philippines
Review by Jason Zuidema Maruja MB Asis, ed. Stella Maris in the Philippines: Caring for Seafarers, Fishers and their Families. Scalabrini Migration Center. 2021. 124pp. This edited collection brings together narrative and documents to understand Stella Maris ministry in the Philippines. Stella
Book Review: Arriving Today by Christopher Mims
Review by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA/ICMA Christopher Mims, Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door - Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy. Harper, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic drew a spotlight on how much we all rely on shipping
Book Review: Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: 40 Portraits of Seafarers by Seafarers
by Dr. Jason Zuidema, NAMMA/ICMA ITF Seafarers' Trust, Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: 40 Portraits of Seafarers by Seafarers, Wall & Vivien Publishing 2021, 96pp. This beautiful picture book is the fruit of a second photo campaign of the ITF