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New article on role of chaplaincy in LGBT veteran healthcare
From Spirituality in Clinical Practice: For many LGBT veterans, meeting with a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) chaplain marks the first time they are able to openly discuss their sexual and gender…
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New survey reveals trends in Catholic healthcare chaplaincy
From Health Progress: The Catholic Health Association has partnered with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC) to study trends in health care chaplaincy for the last 20 years. In 1998 and…
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Introducing Loyalty: Stories
From producer and director David Washburn: Loyalty: Stories profiles a diverse group of American Muslims who gave an oath to protect the United States and uphold its constitution. It looks at the challenges Muslims…
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Execution stayed over state refusal of chaplain
From KWTX: The execution of a “Texas 7” gang member who killed a police officer has been stayed again because the state refuses to provide him with a Buddhist chaplain in the…
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CIL advisor publishes in The Conversation
From Ronit Y. Stahl, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley and an advisor to the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at The Conversation: How the US military has embraced…
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Spiritual care helps veterans reconnect with home and family
From USA Today: The chaplain’s calling remains our commitment to our service members, even — and especially — after they return home. Regardless of faith tradition or branch of service, it is the responsibility…
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Volunteering for war
From the Post and Courier: Volunteers get hurt as well. Bullets aren’t just hardened projectiles that shatter bodies. They ricochet into the shadowed places of the soul reminding us that every aspect…
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Crisis of spirit
From the San Diego Union-Tribune: Like thousands of others this Veterans Day weekend, the 61-year-old San Diegan struggles with memories of what he saw while he was away at war, struggles with…
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Public Safety Chaplains Receive Mass Casualty Training in Charleston, SC
By Rev. J. Eric Skidmore, South Carolina State Police Chaplain October 11-12, 2019 will be two days of training that public safety chaplain trainees at The College of Theology at Lenoir-Rhyne University will not…
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Prayer shawl program comes full circle
From WTHR: “So my mom was at work, and she became suddenly ill, and an ambulance took her to IU Health Methodist Hospital,” Miller said. “After she was there for several days,…
