“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 ...

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a ...

Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry in the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. As a medical intern in the late 1980s, I’d ...

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." —French philosopher, priest, and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Spiritual Care ...

(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 ...