Welcome Letter from the Managing Editor

Welcome to PlainViews, the online journal that translates knowledge and skills into effective chaplaincy and palliative care.
PlainViews is designed to provide you with information and resources for your professional practice in a concise and convenient format. Articles highlight contemporary issues, specialties, and interests to professional chaplains, spiritual care providers, and others involved in palliative care.
The sample issue at this link will give you a taste of PlainViews’ substantive content.
We encourage submissions to PlainViews and invite you to review the submission guidelines. The PlainViews team provides editorial support to authors who wish to contribute.
In order to engage in dialogue with professional colleague around articles, subscribers can leave comments directly beneath the article. Simply add your feedback and click "Comment". Full PDF versions of previous issues are available in the archives. PlainViews offers the opportunity to share the depth and breadth of the unique perspectives of chaplains and other professionals who work with them. The views expressed in PlainViews are those of our contributors.
We hope that you will find PlainViews informative, interesting, provocative, and challenging. We welcome your views and input as we seek to enrich professional chaplaincy and palliative care.

Sue Wintz
Managing Editor, PlainViews