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 ...

(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 ...