Bill Blaine-Wallace, Ph.D.
The Rev. Bill Blaine-Wallace, Ph.D.
Multifaith Chaplain Bates College
161 Wood Street
Lewiston, ME
Email: bbwmosaic@gmail.com
Phone: 207-753-6906
Fax: 207-786-8282
Bill is an Episcopal priest. Besides parish ministry and college chaplaincy, Bill has
served as a pastoral counselor, family therapist, spiritual director, and hospice
administrator over the course of four decades of ministry. He was executive
director of the health care organization that opened the nation’s first acute
inpatient hospice for persons with HIV/AIDS.
As a pastoral psychologist, Bill focuses on the place of lament in our lives and
commitments. Bill constructs lament below and beyond the modernist focus on
moments, seasons, or experiences of particular loss, suffering, and sorrow. Bill sees
lament as community practice, a means for becoming and remaining a relational
being in a broken world, and a seedbed for protest movements that endure. Bill’s
curiosity regarding lament stems from a childhood in Albany, Georgia, in the late
1950’s to mid 1960’s, where he witnessed one of the most hard fought and difficult
chapters in the Civil Rights Movement.
Bill is author of Water in the Wastelands: The Sacrament of Shared Suffering and When
Tears Sing: The Art of Lament in Christian Community.
Bill and his spouse tend a farm in rural Maine.
