This week's selection is one of Bonhoeffer's lesser-known works: Spiritual Care. I first read this work in seminary and it shaped so much of what I think and practice around pastoral care. In it, Bonhoeffer begins with an important affirmation: "The mission of spiritual care falls under the general mission of proclamation. Caring for the soul is a special sort of proclamation". He then goes on to connect that proclamation -- of the Risen One's reconciliation of the world to God -- through the variety of practices that make up the pastor's "spiritual care": Home visitation, conversations with the indifferent, caring for those who are sick and tempted, hearing confessions, visiting another's deathbed, and ministering in funerals, weddings, and baptisms. This is an important little book that every pastor should re-read every couple of years.