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 ...

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 ...

Before entering the room of a COVID-19 patient, the Rev. Peggy Kelley dons personal protective gear — both physical and spiritual. She pulls on a sterile gown and places a face shield over her mask.

“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 ...