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Continue reading →: Hospice Chaplain Resources – All Posts
A list of all posts specifically on hospice chaplaincy available on Human. Chaplain.
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Continue reading →: Chaplaincy as Translation
Healthcare chaplaincy is, in many ways, an act of translation. This fall, I hope you’ll join me in exploring that idea in conversation on my upcoming posts and an online peer support group for hospice chaplains I’ll be offering in partnership with the Spiritual Care Collaborative.
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Continue reading →: Hospice Chaplain Resources – May 2026
One of the challenges of hospice chaplaincy in the US is that many of us are learning the work while actively doing it.
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Continue reading →: Silence
From Gordon Hempton: “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”
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Continue reading →: CPE Cultures
How do we preserve what is meaningful and transformative about clinical pastoral education (CPE) while also creating cultures of greater transparency, accountability, and safety?
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Continue reading →: Core Chaplain Skills – Beyond the Clinical Setting
Hospice chaplains come from a wide range of backgrounds—often with skills that don’t immediately read as “clinical,” but translate directly into the work.
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Continue reading →: On “Curating Joy”
From Lee Ann Kinkade: “Those things stopped me from falling all the way through the hole in the world.”
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Hello,
I’m Mel
I’m a hospice chaplain sharing resources and reflections on human-centered spiritual care within the U.S. healthcare system.
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