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How To Be A Living Thing
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="17287" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://geni.us/cil-andrew-web"][vc_column_text css=""]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew for a discussion of her most recent book, How To Be A Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World (Penguin Random House, 2025). Andrew will also discuss […] -
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Spiritual Care in Private Education
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="17255" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://geni.us/cil-private-ed-web"][vc_column_text css=""]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and Rev. Steve Allen, 30 year independent school chaplain and consultant on educational chaplaincy, for a conversation on articulating the value of spiritual care in a primary through secondary private educational environment. We’ll explore questions that often come up when institutions are […] -
Spiritual Care for Buddhist Students in Higher Education
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="17193" img_size="600x314" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://chaplaincyinnovation.org/event/spiritual-care-buddhist-students-maitreya"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab in collaboration with the Maitreya Association for Buddhist Chaplains for a dynamic online forum exploring Spiritual Care for Buddhist Students in Higher Education. This session will offer a thoughtful introduction to the unique contours of Buddhist student experience, blending contemplative practice, pastoral […] -
Spiritual Care into the Future: Is There a Consensus?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="17138" img_size="large" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://geni.us/consensus-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Covenantal pluralism, a philosophy that encourages shifting from tolerance of religious diversity to mutual engagement, is desperately needed around the world. The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab has been advancing this idea through its project "Expanding the Reach of Covenantal Pluralism," with support from Templeton Religion Trust. Chaplains and […] -
Chaplaincy in Rural Appalachia: Regional Culture and Spiritual Care Applications
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="17056" img_size="large" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://geni.us/appala-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Rural Appalachia is commonly portrayed as an isolated, backward region of the United States. This has historically led to views of Appalachia as a place in need of help and education with little thought to what lessons Appalachia might offer people in other places. Presenters in this […] -
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[External] Bearing Witness to Other’s Pain with Compassion, Cranaleith Spiritual Center
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="17050" img_size="large" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://cranaleith.org/programs/2341/bearing-witness-to-others-pain-with-compassion-a-reflective-day-for-chaplains-counselors-and-spiritual-directors/"][vc_column_text css=""] Bearing Witness to Other's Pain with Compassion November 1, 2025, Cranaleith Spiritual Center, Philadelphia, PA The sacred privilege of listening to others’ pain—whether through illness, loss, trauma, or life’s profound transitions—can be both deeply meaningful and spiritually demanding. Those who companion others in their suffering […] -
Spiritual Care for Those with Dementia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="16989" img_size="large" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://geni.us/dementia-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and chaplain Lynn Casteel Harper for a conversation on providing spiritual care for those with dementia and other cognitive diagnoses. We’ll discuss how spiritual care affirms and supports the essential dignity of those with cognitive diagnoses; how chaplains can communicate with those […] -
Nones Don’t Exist: The Perils of Labeling and the Reality of Non-Religious Diversity
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="16988" img_size="large" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="https://geni.us/nones-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and Chaplain Ben Iten, ACPE Certified Educator at OhioHealth and Vice President / Chair of the Chaplain Committee of The Humanist Society, for a conversation on the deep nuance often concealed by terms like “Nones,” “Unaffiliated,” and “Nonreligious.” As the demographics of […] -
Facilitating Goals of Care Conversations
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="16831" img_size="large" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="http://geni.us/convo-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]What is the role of the chaplain in goals of care conversations? Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and palliative care chaplain Bobby Fleck for a discussion of the expertise chaplains bring to these conversations, as well as how they relate to patients, caregivers and medical team members. We […] -
Religion and the American University: A Conversation with Author James Fraser
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="16829" img_size="large" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" css="" link="http://geni.us/Fraser-web"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=""]Join Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and author James Fraser for a discussion of Fraser's most recent book, Religion and the American University. From Johns Hopkins University Press: Once the unifying center of American higher education, religion has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past 220 years. From its origins […]
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