Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities Quotes

“The most common understanding of place is that it is space turned into something with meaning.”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

“4. Care responds to the multiple diversities in community.”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

“Their public theology shows up at school board meetings, in the local diner, or at the funeral home in ways that make their voice more expansive than many pastoral leaders experience in suburban or urban settings. The local pastoral leader often becomes a dominant voice”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

“3. Pastoral care and public leadership intersect.”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

“Care engages community. There is a sense of interdependence in rural communities that pushes care beyond a particular congregational membership to being offered by and for the whole community.”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

“1. Care is shaped by place.”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

“every human person is in certain respects 1) like all others, 2) like some others, and 3) like no other.”[11]”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

“In and through this relational existence we come to know God as love and come to understand the Christian call to “love one another.” This love is not a warm feeling, although it may include that; it is active and participatory engagement in the whole of life of other persons and of the global society. It involves individual healing and social justice making.”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

“Understanding a place includes more than researching demographic and economic trends, it also involves investigating the culture of a place. What norms, practices, institutions, and worldviews are operating in the community?”
― Jeanne Hoeft, Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities