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Prison chaplain opens homeless day shelter
From The Columbus Dispatch: Unlike traditional homeless shelters, which typically open in the evenings, the Hope Center is a place for homeless and low-income residents to come during the day. “It’s filling a…
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Religion on Campus: Working Paper
Rebecca Barton, a doctoral student in sociology at Brandeis University, has written a working paper / literature review on campus chaplaincy. The paper, which you can find here, offers an overview of…
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Webinar: Trauma Chaplaincy
Executive Director Michael Skaggs facilitates a conversation with Mishca Smith, RUMC Emergency Department chaplain; Glenn Calkins, ACPE Supervisor and chaplain with the American Red Cross Disaster Spiritual Care Team; and Eric Skidmore,…
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Chaplains providing critical incident stress in seaports
Chaplains with the Mission to Seafarers of Southern Ontario have partnered with the Hamilton Port Authority to provide critical incident stress support. From the Hamilton Spectator: The Hamilton Port Authority and the Mission to…
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Chaplaincy in wildfire
From Kathy Steinmetz at Time: In the book of Daniel, there is a story about three men who refuse to worship a golden idol and the furious king who casts them into…
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The Boundless Field of Ecological Chaplaincy
From Wendy Johnson at Tricycle: One of the oldest derivations of the word “chaplain” harkens back to 4th-century France when Saint Martin of Torres, upon encountering a freezing cold man at the winter…
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Making research a part of spiritual care
Rush University highlights the work of George Fitchett, the dean of the healthcare chaplaincy research community and co-founder of the Transforming Chaplaincy Project: Decades ago, Fitchett says, he would have said “the…
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Introduction to Disaster Spiritual Care now available through Chaplain Distance Learning
Chaplain Distance Learning will offer the course “Introduction to Disaster Spiritual Care” in January 2019, with several additional start dates over the course of the year. The course lasts four weeks and…
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Webinar: Chaplaincy to the Unseen
Executive Director Michael Skaggs talks with Rev. Stephen Cushing, Executive Director of the New England Seafarers’ Mission . . . This content is only available to subscribers to the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab. Most…
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New guidelines on access to palliative care
From ACPE: New National Guidelines Seek to Improve Access to Palliative Care for People Living with Serious Illness: New national palliative care clinical practice guidelines seek to ensure the millions of people…
