Congregational Service and Chaplaincy: Can Both Be Done?

Date: June 1, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Webinar

No few chaplains also work in congregational service, or other settings of shared and intentional religious, spiritual, or philosophy. How can both types of work be successful? How does one inform the other?

In this webinar, participants will gain a better understanding of the skills and abilities that carry over from congregational service into non-congregational spiritual care, and vice versa. We will also make explicit those aspects of non-congregational care that are unique to chaplaincy. Multiple examples of successful careers in spiritual care pursued while also providing congregational service will be provided, and participants who serve congregations will gain actionable advice on pursuing work in chaplaincy. We will be joined by:

Wendy Cadge, Director, Chaplaincy Innovation Lab; Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences, Brandeis University; Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Brandeis University.

Photo of Wendy Cadge, who will address the World Health Organization conference on October 2021

Tim Shapiro, President, Indianapolis Center for Congregations

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You may also be interested in the Trauma Responsive Congregations Project, hosted by our colleagues at Boston University School of Theology. From the project: “Responding well can lead to thriving—in the life of our congregations, our neighborhoods, and our cities. We foster mutual learning among a network of educators and congregational leaders to generate theologically robust, interdisciplinary, and innovative responses to collective trauma that are deeply integrated into the mission of thriving urban congregations.”