Folks occasionally ask me how they too might become a hospital chaplain. Some seem to hope I’ll say they need only attend five Monday nights of training in a local church, and they can start making ...

While doctors treat illness and mend the body, hospital chaplains heal the spirit and soothe the mind. Physicians and chaplains have a symbiotic relationship within the hospital walls. Memorial ...

“My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue hospital ...

In my medical training, I once treated a young woman with metastatic breast cancer, who looked up at me every day with sparkling blue eyes and hope. Unfortunately, despite treatment, her cancer spread ...

It’s been a little less than a month since the Rev. Rachel Helgeson took over as lead chaplain at United Health Services. She replaced Deacon Bill Fitzpatrick in the role as of Nov. 1. Helgeson heads ...

Some change was inevitable for the 126-year-old Ascension St. Vincent’s Health System when the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System Authority assumed ownership late in 2024. From the ...