(RNS) — “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 ...

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 ...

Hospital chaplains often meet people at the lowest point in their lives. We hear from one chaplain who encourages patients to discuss their tattoos as a way of creating an emotional bond. Hospital ...

ANNISTON — About 70 of Regional Medical Center’s staff members, volunteers, board members and visitors gathered in the hospital’s main lobby to honor longtime Chaplain Jim Wilson, who has led the ...

This story was originally published on UNC Media Hub. At Duke University Hospital in Durham, interfaith chaplains comfort patients, families and friends, and even staff. “As I tell the students, and I ...