Upcoming Webinars and Other Events

Check out our upcoming events below; some are free and open to the public, while others are for Chaplaincy Innovation Lab individual and organizational subscribers.

We also invite your organization to consider sponsoring one or more webinars. Sponsors are listed on all pre-event publicity, during the event, and in all follow-up and archival materials. Sponsorship is an excellent opportunity to reach an incredibly diverse community of chaplains, educators, and others contributing to the work of spiritual care. For more information, write to us at info@chaplaincyinnovation.org.

Radical Embrace of the Other

Date: January 16, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Zoom (subscribers only)
Webinar
2025-01-16 WIDE Embrace Other

Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and three leading chaplains for a discussion on one of the core requirements of professional chaplaincy: radical embrace of the radically “other,” even within chaplaincy itself. In a time of unprecedented political and social division, what role do chaplains play in healing fractured communities?

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Spiritual Care by and for the Spiritually / Religiously Unaffiliated

Date: February 6, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Webinar
2025-02-06 WIDE unaffiliated

Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for a free, public webinar at the conclusion of its project “Spiritual Care Networks for Unaffiliated Chaplains,” sponsored by the Fetzer Institute. In this webinar, we’ll report findings from our work on this project, including the educational opportunities and barriers present for spiritually/religiously unaffiliated chaplains; the experiences of unaffiliated chaplains in the workplace; and the effectiveness of providing space for unaffiliated chaplains to support one another.

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The Asylum Seekers: A Conversation with Author Cristina Rathbone

Date: March 20, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Webinar
2025-3-20 WIDE Rathbone

Join the Chaplaincy innovation Lab for a conversation with Rev. Cristina Rathbone on her new book, The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border. We’ll discuss how Cristina found herself serving those at the border, how her training as a chaplain prepared her for this work, and what lessons all chaplains can learn from the experience of asylum seekers. 

Please register here.

We’ll be joined by:

Cristina Rathbone is an award-winning journalist, Episcopal priest, and spiritual director. She is the author of On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School and A World Apart: Women, Prisons, and Life Behind Bars. In partnership with Episcopal Migration Ministries, she founded Neighbor to Neighbor, a national network that supports congregations as they accompany newly arrived asylum seekers. Rathbone is the mother of two sons and lives in Massachusetts.

2025-3-20 HEADSHOT Rathbone

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