Yea do I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, Clinical Pastoral Care Education Units Program. I will not fear, Come join me!

During my years serving as a hospital chaplain, I’ve been asked many questions from patients, their families, staff and even doctor’s.

And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon. (2 Chronicles 3:14, KJV, Solomon...

What does one do as a hospital chaplain when you get a melody stuck in your head? Well, on one of my patient visits that melody turned...

F - FAITHFULLY, A – ANOINTED, C – CHOSEN, & E – EQUIPPED The Background Story Since about 6 months after birth, I have been fighting...

Chaplains respond regularly to daily codes and consults as part of our pastoral/spiritual care responsibilities. We have been training...

Happy New Year & Welcome to the 1st Diary of a Hospital Chaplain’s Blog, new edition for 2022! Here’s an interesting fact about hospital...

I want to be a doctor, I want to be a lawyer, I want to be a movie star, singer in Hollywood or an astronaut. As a child playing with my...

Have you ever planned to be sick, injured or in a traumatic event? None of us if we're honest thinks that it will ever happen to me until...

With INTENSITY,1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6,7, 8,9,10, ready or not, here I come! This was an exciting childhood game that I played for many years....

Chaplains can be the perfect stranger and a quick unlikely companion, because when you need us, we are there for you. But once we have...

“To be or not to be, that is the, (hospital chaplains) question, from the Shakespeare’s Hamlet’s play (1601). It’s that moment where, the...

Welcome to the royal throne of holier than thou, this is a pastoral visit account of a hostile patient (1st assumption). My 1st...

Try being a chaplain after you receive a code page like this one. When I spoke to the nurse and she started telling me the details of...

During one of our InterFaith services, one of our chaplain residents introduced the lotus flower to us. From that moment of learning...

Discretionary tales can take on many forms, looks, and feelings for the hospital chaplain. To mentally and emotionally process through...

Twas the night before Christmas and I’m stuck in a hospital instead. The only creature that was stirring was me from my bed. The I.V. was...

No one ever truly plans on becoming a patient as one is happily pursuing their life’s ambitions, goals & dreams. Yet, there are cycles in...

The code blue pager calls activate the chaplain’s gifting of God’s presence and the clinical training preparation to serve potential patient

Within my starry-eyed dreams of pursuing clinical chaplaincy I never pictured the realities of encountering racial, gender prejudices & bias