The image many individuals may have of hospital spiritual care or chaplaincy is that of a member of the clergy, sister or layperson praying with a patient, a family or loved ones at the bedside. Today ...

Guest columnist Chuck Behrens is spiritual care coordinator for Hospice of the Western Reserve. When people hear the word “chaplain,” many think of formal prayer or religious rituals. Some assume ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — The International Association for Spiritual Care met in Chicago for its annual conference from July 20-22, under the theme “spiritual care as resistance,” which focused on how to ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--City of Hope Orange County, part of one of the nation’s largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations, has created the first immersive, ...

Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University When Americans picture a chaplain, many of them likely think of someone like Father Mulcahy, the Irish American ...

This post is Part 1 of a two-part series. Author, Zen teacher, and Jungian psychotherapist Koshin Paley Ellison is a leader in the contemplative medicine movement. With his husband, Robert Chodo ...