Theresa Platt felt a calling, but never saw herself as a chaplain. “It was not on my radar,” the Grants Pass, Oregon, native said. When asked if he thought he might become a chaplain, McCaskey ...

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 ...

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 ...

-Two grants totaling $4.5M over four years from the John Templeton Foundation will better equip hospital chaplains to use research to guide, evaluate and advocate for the spiritual care they provide.

As a resident of Einstein Healthcare Network’s chaplain residency training program, George Akins is striving to become a beacon of spiritual support for patients. Akins, 54, is one of five residents ...