Multimedia Resources

We’ve curated the best of audio and visual media exploring chaplaincy today. Here you can find links to podcasts, documentaries, interviews, and more; if you know of new materials, please let us know and write to info@chaplaincyinnovation.org.

Stay Yourself

Rev. Tyler Erickson, M.A., M.Div. Chaplain -- Ruby Memorial Hospital What if your challenge in life isn't finding yourself... but staying yourself? We live in an anxious world. Families pull us into old roles. Relationships pressure us to keep the peace. Social media demands outrage. Workplaces reward conformity. Politics pushes us into tribes. Little by…

Amazing Grace

Rev. Chaplain Marvin R. Jonasen, MDiv, BCC Staff Chaplain -- Emplify (by Gundersen) Health System “Goodbye" is perhaps the most difficult word to say. One moment our world is safe and loving; the next moment it shatters. When the crushing force of grief hits, we often feel blindsided, devastated, and numb: how do we go…

Sacred Balance

Miriam Diephouse-McMillan, BCC Psychiatric Hospital Chaplain Miriam Diephouse-McMillan works and writes at the intersection of Spirituality and Mental Health. As a psychiatric hospital chaplain for over 14 years, she explores the big questions of meaning, hope, and connection that shape our faith and well-being. Her book, Sacred Balance: How Ancient Practices Can Restore Modern Minds,…

Grief & Beliefs

Jane Kagia, EdD, BCC, GC-C, CG-Ed Chaplain Dr. Kagia has given us the gift of a book born from the intersection of personal experience, professional calling, and cultural identity. In these pages, she creates space for grief that honors both the rich particularity of Kenyan traditions and the universal human experience of loss. She reminds…

“Otherwise” Inner and Outer Worlding

Anthony Cruz Pantojas, MATS, MALS, BCC Associate University Chaplain, Director of Humanist Life and Africana Spiritual Life - Tufts University In the book Wisdom Traditions in Spiritual Care: Integrative Explorations on Normativity, edited by Daniel Schipani, PhD, I contributed a chapter entitled “Otherwise” Inner and Outer Worlding. It explores a conceptual framework of existential care…

Rewiring Human Spirituality

Karen Cherwien, BCC Staff Chaplain - Arkansas Children's Hospital karen@cherwien.com To learn more about (and/or purchase) Karen's new book, "Rewiring Human Spirituality: Cultivating Pneumaplasticity in a Culture of Fear," please visit: https://karen.cherwien.com/home/pneumaplasticity. Learn more here. {{ vc_btn: title=Submit+your+work+to+the+Chaplains%27+Corner%21&color=primary&align=center&css=&button_block=true }}