While doctors treat illness and mend the body, hospital chaplains heal the spirit and soothe the mind. Physicians and chaplains have a symbiotic relationship within the hospital walls. Memorial ...

Folks occasionally ask me how they too might become a hospital chaplain. Some seem to hope I’ll say they need only attend five Monday nights of training in a local church, and they can start making ...

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 ...

“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 ...

FORT POLK, La. — When Soldiers, patients, Families, and staff walk the halls of Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, many may not realize that care extends beyond medicine and treatment plans. Capt.

It’s been a little less than a month since the Rev. Rachel Helgeson took over as lead chaplain at United Health Services. She replaced Deacon Bill Fitzpatrick in the role as of Nov. 1. Helgeson heads ...

In my medical training, I once treated a young woman with metastatic breast cancer, who looked up at me every day with sparkling blue eyes and hope. Unfortunately, despite treatment, her cancer spread ...

The other day while I was visiting patients, I had a lovely visit with an individual and their family member. They were politely asking me about being a chaplain, and the loved one said, “I bet you ...