Training to be a hospital chaplain for a year changed the way I see suffering. Life and death in the hospital were tenuous and terrifying. Nothing was impossible and nothing was guaranteed. Sometimes ...

Chaplaincy is the art of meeting people where they are. I would walk into a patient’s room with no agenda other than to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The COVID-19 pandemic brought new attention to the work of chaplains. Before the pandemic, as an article in The New York Times put ...

If you're interested in taking part in Northwest Medical Center's Pastoral Caring Program, you'll need to attend the 10-week Volunteer Chaplin Training course that runs from October 15 to December 17.

“My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue hospital ...

(The Conversation) — Chaplaincy emerged as a professional field in the mid-20th century. In the years since, their roles have evolved and they have also come to include many diverse religious ...