Category / Chaplaincy in the News / Healthcare
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The Ringer: Hospital Chaplaincy in the Age of Coronavirus
From Jordan Ritter Conn at The Ringer: Chaplains care for patients and their families and even the doctors and nurses and other members of hospital staffs. This can mean praying together, reading…
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New York Times: Music in Times of Loss
From Chris Sikora at the New York Times: “If we’re going to survive this pandemic we need music, more than ever. There is nothing else that can meet us in our heartbreak,…
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Collegeville Institute: A Chaplain’s Reflections in the Early Days of COVID-19
From Michelle Micklewright via collegevilleinstitute.org: “I breathe in, calm, I breathe out, healing. From a distance I send healing to Astor. I imagine her lying in her bed. I align my breathing…
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Syracuse.com: For many Covid-19 victims, these are the last voices they hear.
From Marnie Eisenstadt at Syracuse.com: The Rev. Terry Culbertson went up to the floor at Upstate University Hospital with a few others. They stood outside the door. They could not go in. She…
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The Guardian: “You’re not alone. I am with you.”
From Bryan Mealer at The Guardian: For chaplains working in hospitals, the virus has obliterated the old places and practices where they once channeled the divine: the quiet bedside, an embrace in… -
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The Washington Post: “It feels heavy”
From Claire Galofaro at the Associated Press, via The Washington Post: Runyon thinks of himself a narrator, there to explain what the doctors are doing, so the family is not too shocked… -
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The Atlantic: The Rise of the Chaplains
From Lab founder Wendy Cadge at The Atlantic: Their grandparents may have gone to church. But today, many Americans turn elsewhere to meet their spiritual needs. Read more here.
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The Columbus Dispatch: Hospital chaplains are finding new ways to care
From Danae King at the Columbus Dispatch: “We’re still doing our core mission … to provide emotional and spiritual support to patients, families and staff,” said Hanci Newberry, chaplaincy director at Ohio…
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News Center Maine: Chaplain at Boston Hospital offers comfort and hope to Covid-19 patients and their families
By Beth Brogan at News Center Maine: Erica Long, a graduate of Cony High School in Augusta, Bates College, the Harvard School of Divinity, says she is ‘grateful’ to be able to…
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Aunt Bertha|The Social Care Network: Chaplain profiles from the pandemic
From Jim Tuttle and Cecily Sailer at Aunt Bertha|The Social Care Network: With regular caseloads of more than 60 families, Hospice Austin Chaplains Katrina Shawgo and Nettie Reynolds would each routinely visit…
