The Harvard Divinity School is considering launching its own Clinical Pastoral Education program after hospital budget cuts sharply reduced training opportunities important for students pursuing ...

Graduate studies at CSTM offer a unique opportunity to engage in rigorous theological studies for ministry in one of the world's most expansive health care settings. Students interested in chaplaincy ...

On his first day training as a chaplain at UC San Diego Health, Rev. Matthew Valdez was embedded with the palliative care team. His very first patient died. Shaken by the experience, Valdez ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought new attention to the work of chaplains. Before the pandemic, as an article in The New York Times put it, the place of the hospital chaplain was “at the bedside, holding a ...