This is my third, or technically my fourth career. And I come out of the corporate arena and moved into education and then moved into ministry, but I think it would be helpful to backtrack. I originally [was] born and raised on the South Side of…
From a Jewish point of view, I would say this comfortably, and even probably my colleagues as well, is that it's holy work. So it's really very, in that way, similar to being a clergy person in general. [baby noises and shushing] The amount of stuff…
This is a very interesting year, I don’t know if they've had a year of residents like we are, but the joke in Minnesota is that you're likely to run into, any religion you're likely to run into it will be Lutheran, because you've got so many here.…
In terms of diversity, the, one of the challenges also is not just the diversity of the patients but the diversity of the caregivers, the chaplains. And I think in the twenty-first century this is another shift that we're looking at, we're having…
I'm a non-threatening entity and, even more importantly, I'm not some Christian trying to get them to believe in Jesus. And that would be the reputation—the two reputations that chaplains have. Most of them over the years, in a hospital setting, have…
Well, I really see the role of the chaplain here [at Carleton] is to, I always say this, there's three parts to it. The first is to help people of all religious backgrounds to practice in whatever way is appropriate to them. So we have, I have a…