Conversations: US hospital chaplain JS Park talks grief in new book
“The biggest myth I see is that grief is a poison to get past,” said Park, who spoke to KATHRYN POST of Religion News Service…
Essay: The US Navy needs more chaplains
All three US sea services want and need more chaplains, writes Rear Admiral GREGORY N TODD, chief of US Navy Chaplains. But, he says in an article published by Religion News Service, the recruiting deficit is extreme…
The Long Read: Why the US Navy is deploying more chaplains for suicide prevention
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on moves to deploy chaplains as regular members of the crew on more ships…
Chaplains made part of Ukraine’s military as war drags on
Kyiv, Ukraine AP To the haunting chants of a church choir in Kyiv’s 11th century Saint Sophia Cathedral, the first group of chaplains to join the Ukrainian military’s command structure graduated in a ceremony Saturday. Heads of church organisations bless Ukrainian military chaplains during the official ceremony of presenting certificates at Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, […]
Chaplains offer more than prayers: New study confirms impact on ICU families
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports on what a new study shows about the work of chaplains in US Intensive care units…
Essay: Who’s giving Americans spiritual care? As congregational attendance shrinks, it’s often chaplains
In an article first published on The Conversation, WENDY CADGE, author of ‘Spiritual Care: The Everyday Work of Chaplains’, says the role of chaplains may become more significant as more Americans step away from traditional religious congregations…
Essay: Defending our sacred right to vote
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Revs BARBARA WILLIAMS-SKINNER and Rev JIM WALLIS, of Faiths United to Save Democracy, together with ADAM TAYLOR, write about why 2,000 poll chaplains are being mobilised ahead of the US-midterm elections…
Essay: How the role and visibility of chaplains changed over the past century
In an article first published on The Conversation, WENDY CADGE and MICHAEL SKAGGS – scholars of American religion and spirituality, look at how the coronavirus pandemic has changed the nature of the work of chaplains…
US campus ministries soothe, rally students shaken over Ukraine
New Haven, ConnecticutAP Entering Yale University’s St Thomas More Catholic chapel, Oksana Goroshchuk spotted sunflowers adorning a candlelit altar and thought of the fields full of her country’s national blossom near her grandmother’s home in Ukraine. A mezzo-soprano launched into a traditional folk tune that Goroshchuk used to sing growing up, and the postdoctoral medical […]
Essay: War and soldiers have changed over a century. Chaplains remain a powerful force.
As the US marks Veterans Day and Remembrance Day is marked around the world, JOE DRAPE, author of a new book on US Korean War chaplain Rev Emil Kapaun, says that, in a day when soldiers are often not religiously affiliated, chaplains still make connections across faiths…