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We are grateful to the following colleagues at Seattle Pacific University (SPU), Seattle, Washington, for their gracious help, through gifts of time and talent, with this project: Katie Bennett, Administrative Assistant, Graduate Nursing; Carrie Fry, Sciences Librarian; Kristen Hoffman, Psychology and Scholarly Communications Librarian; Kieran Jackson, Computer and Information Systems Helpdesk Lead Technician; David Nienhuis, Professor of New Testament; Steve Perisho, Theology and Philosophy Librarian; Frank A. Spina, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament; Lorie M. Wild, Dean of the School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing; and Dominic Williamson, Senior Instructional Designer: Graphics/Illustration. Special mention must be made here of our dearly departed colleague, James O. Mitre, Instructor of Psychiatric Nursing, who deeply cared for others and often shared the story used in chapter 3 to help students learn. Jim’s untimely death in 2014 brought sorrow to our campus and to the wider Seattle healthcare community.

Our special gratitude goes to the graduate nursing students at SPU in the autumn 2017, spring 2018, and spring 2019 sections of NUR 6301 Values, Faith and Ethics, who used early drafts of this work as a course text. Their “clinical voices” can be heard throughout the book. We also wish to thank the following student workers in the SPU School of Health Sciences for their logistical assistance in the preparation of the manuscript: Sophia Hamann, Rachel Johanson, Caitlyn Schnider and Michelle Anastacio Trujeque.

Two colleagues from other institutions—Valorie Orton, Assistant Professor of Nursing at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and Gerald Sittser, Professor of Theology and Senior Fellow in the Office of Church Engagement at Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington—carefully reviewed the manuscript and offered many kind suggestions for its improvement. We are deeply in their debt.

We also wish to express our appreciation for the assistance given us by Meghan Brown, Permissions Associate at Art Resource, New York, New York, and Zhanna Etsina, Manager, Rights and Reproductions Office, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, in securing licenses for and high-resolution images of several of the pieces of artwork used in this volume.

Finally, we wish to thank our spouses, Marilyn Hair and Joseph Monroe, for the countless ways in which their love blesses our lives daily, and particularly for the patience and support they unfailingly offered us as this book grew from dream to reality.