SICA member Janet Foggie

Janet Foggie‘s biography

Being inclusive and encouraging diversity is a part of who I am as a person. It isn’t an add on for me. Come rain or shine, summer or winter, this is who I am. This includes being an up-stander for LGBTQ+ rights and being proactive in working to include. All faiths, beliefs, and cultures are welcome and we celebrate together who we intrinsically are.

I am a celebrant with a background in Christian Ministry in the Church of Scotland, I have worked as a chaplain, a minister, and in charities. You’ll find a lot more information about me on my website: Janet Foggie

I have also had some time in my own life to reflect on bereavement and how to cope after a difficult or traumatic loss. I have a couple of videos about my own journey which you’ll find here.

Living Well with Bereavement

The View From The Gate

Writing for services is one of the real privileges of my role as a celebrant and I can create new and fresh material for every family. I also use a wide variety of readings in poetry and prose and will often be able to make suggestions of material if a family wishes to widen their choice of readings beyond that readily available on the web. To me a good funeral is authentic for the family and their loved one, and it’s about finding that authenticity of tone and expression as I facilitate your goodbyes.

I am also the author of a monograph and several academic publications:

Publications

Contributor: “What Were Your Arguing About Along the Way?”, Ed Pat Bennett, (Canterbury Press, 2021)

‘Loneliness and Isolation’ in Learn: Pastoral Care (November 2018)

Monograph: “Renaissance Religion in Urban Scotland; The Dominican Order 1450-1560” (2003, Brill, Leiden, London, New York) Winner of Hume Brown Senior Prize for Scottish History in 2005. Short-listed for the Saltire History Book of the Year Award 2004.

Framework: Capabilities and Competences for Healthcare Chaplains (NHS Education For Scotland, 2008) joint authors: Chris Levison, Iain Macritchie, David Mitchell and Janet Foggie.

Contributor: ‘We will Seek Peace and Pursue It’, Neil Paynter ed. (Wild Goose Publications, 2015)

Contributor: Church’s report ‘Suicide among young men: the Church as a community of carers’. I introduced that report at a public meeting (around 80 present) as well as online on a video blog [http://youtu.be/9MHlWyio-Ts] Report [http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/5896/Suicide_Among_Young_Men_May_2011.pdf]

Academic Articles:

‘Faith group leaders and trauma: the difference that can make the difference?’ Paul Cavanagh, Janet Foggie, Alastair Hull and Basel Switzer, Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, vol 12 no.2, 2009

‘A brief Analysis of the Role of Clinical Pastoral Education today’, Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, vol 11, no.2, 2008.

‘Spiritual and Religious Care Capabilities and Competences for Healthcare Chaplains’ Janet Foggie, Chris Levison, Iain Macritchie and David Mitchell, Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, vol 11, no.2, 2008.

 ‘Orthodoxy or Heresy? A New Way of Looking at Spiritual Care for people with delusional beliefs’, Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, vol 10, no.1 (2007)

‘The Medieval Church’ in Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100-1701 (Volume 1, The Scottish Nation: Origins to c.1500) ed B. Harris and A.R. MacDonald (Dundee University Press, 2006).

‘Renaissance Devotion in Scotland’ in Aberdeen University Review (2000).

‘Archivum Sacrae Paenitentiariae Apostolicae in the Vatican Archives as a source for Scottish Historians’ The Innes Review, vol 47 no 2, (1996).