In this episode, Dr. Scott Donahue-Martens - affiliated with Boston University School of Theology, Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University, and Providence Newberg Medical Center - discusses his project examining chaplain and patient perspectives on successful spiritual care visits in hospital settings. Scott developed and deployed a non-burdensome questionnaire to compare assessments, guided by established tools like HOPE, FICA, and rapport-building frameworks, addressing gaps in literature that overlook patient views. Key focuses included differences between chaplain and patient views on successful spiritual care, psychological strategies to bridge those gaps, and improving openness in sensitive hospital interactions.

In this episode, Research Fellow Dr Ela Łazarewicz-Wyrzykowska - Affiliated Researcher at the Two Wings Institute in Wrocław, Poland, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge, UK - discusses her project investigating how Catholics perceive God as transcendent, immanent, or indwelling, and associations with contemplative versus ritualized prayer. Ela developed and administered a new scale to 300 Catholics in Poland, measuring understandings of God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit's "where-being," alongside correlates like prayer types, absorption, religiousness, and demographics (including Charismatic Renewal affiliations). Key focuses include group differences - such as higher indwelling views of the Holy Spirit among Charismatics - and links to spiritual experiences.

In this episode, Research Fellow Revd Dr Carlton Turner - tutor in Contextual Theology and Mission Studies, as well as Deputy Director of Research, at the Queen's Foundation, Birmingham - discusses his project exploring how psychological research can deepen the Church of England’s theological discussions and practices on racism, particularly for the flourishing of UK Minority Ethnic (UKME) and Global Majority Heritage (GMH) individuals. Drawing on text-based analysis of CofE literature and psychological theories like Minority Stress Theory and Social Threat Theory, alongside stakeholder interviews and documentary research in selected dioceses, Carlton examines the psychological grounding of theological conversations on racism in individual and collective forms.