“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 ...

In my medical training, I once treated a young woman with metastatic breast cancer, who looked up at me every day with sparkling blue eyes and hope. Unfortunately, despite treatment, her cancer spread ...

Listening is key, says Carolyn Bennett, one of UMC's 12 volunteer chaplains Carolyn Bennett read about UMC's budget cuts in the newspaper four years ago, went through the hospital's volunteer chaplain ...

(RNS) — Religiously unaffiliated Americans represent about 28% of the country’s population, according to 2024 Pew Research Center data. As this demographic has grown, so, too, have the number of ...

The Rev. Mark Grobner brings a lot with him when he visits patients in Racine's hospitals. One of six hospital chaplains with the Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints health care system here, Grobner can ...