Chaplaincy as social justice in The Guardian

From Bryan Mealer, writing in The Guardian:

But perhaps ironically, our most humbling and difficult work had little to do with death. It involved helping our patients – those convicted of crime; diagnosed with a psychosis; grappling from diabetes; rendered without home and those declared “alien” by law –– feel fully alive and accepted in the world, demonstrating that each of them is worthy and their dignity inherent, a concept as radical as it is hopeful. For this reason, the practice of spiritual care is one of the greatest acts of social justice I’ve ever been part of.