Immersion

A Pilgrimage into Service

De: James Menkhaus

Narrado por: James Menkhaus

A Pilgrimage into Service is a resource for those discerning or undergoing an immersive service experience or post-graduate volunteer service program. It utilizes recent Catholic social thought, Scripture, an Ignatian paradigm of service-reflection, and Christian spirituality.

This audiobook helps listeners to identify and navigate their innermost call to service by providing tools for reflection and discernment. It also challenges harmful attitudes that can reinforce unhealthy uses of privilege and power that perpetuate historically deleterious impacts on host communities through cultural and racial hegemony.

An audiobook that invites reflection on the motives, potential pitfalls, and outcomes of immersion and service programs is timely as the United States grapples with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and a greater sense of the need for racial justice. Despite the vast resources used to sustain immersion and postgraduate volunteer programs, there are few resources to guide students, their parents, team leaders, discerning postgraduate volunteer participants, and program directors through the personal, social, and spiritual transformation that is sparked by these experiences.

©2022 James Menkhaus (P)2022 James Menkhaus

Thought provoking and reflective

What a wonderful and insightful book by James Menkhaus! His work is engaging with personal stories and encourages reflection. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in immersion trips. As a previous participant on an immersion trip, this book help me reflect on the experience and remember the trip. So wonderful to listen to this book!! Highly recommended.