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 ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...