“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 ...

It was about two years ago when Larisa Waya first met Charisse Pinkney lying in a hospital bed at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Doctors and nurses had used their methods to treat her — pain meds, ...

(RNS) — “Everything happens for a reason” might be one of the least helpful things you can say to someone who just lost a loved one, according to veteran hospital chaplain J.S. Park. But while Park ...

Lying in his bed at a Wheaton rehabilitation center, Eddie Wisniewski grimaced when a chaplain holding a Bible appeared in the doorway. That day in 2022, Wisniewski had already been in a hospital for ...

Hospital chaplains often meet people at the lowest point in their lives. We hear from one chaplain who encourages patients to discuss their tattoos as a way of creating an emotional bond. Hospital ...

Joon Park still thinks about his patients long after they’re gone. He remembers the young man who lived on the street and had aspired to be a musician before cancer took him. On his deathbed, the man ...

M. Oscar Hall used to be so afraid of death that he decided to become a hospital chaplain. Hall has been comforting Houston Methodist patients for nearly 30 years, but it was his own aversion to death ...

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." —French philosopher, priest, and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Spiritual Care ...