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 ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. The Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at the University of California, Santa Barbara, ...

When a chaplain walks into a hospital room, many people fear the worst. Jeremy Lambert and the Chaplain Partnership, based in North Olmsted, are working to change that by integrating chaplains into ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. – For over 130 years, social workers have worked to enhance the lives of individuals and communities by breaking down barriers to ...

Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry in the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. As a medical intern in the late 1980s, I’d ...

Chaplains and enlisted religious affairs specialists in Korea read last rites to dying soldiers and ran memorial services in ...

The carrier flight deck was just waking up. The air held the bite of salt and the tang of jet fuel. A young Sailor stopped me in the passageway and asked if we could talk somewhere private. We stepped ...

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." —French philosopher, priest, and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Spiritual Care ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the military will be rebuilding its Chaplain Corps with a renewed focus on faith. In a video posted to X, Hegseth denounced “the weakening of our ...

(RNS) — Sarah Bowen says she’s been doing the work of an animal chaplain since she was 6 years old. Raised in the Midwest as a Presbyterian preacher’s kid, she was often hauled to hospice facilities ...