By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Correspondent Until recently, the director of spiritual wellness at St. Luke’s Health System in Kansas City had not seen her staff chaplains equip nurses to perform sacred rituals at the bedside. Such measures hadn’t been needed before now. But these are not normal days at St. Luke’s, where about 200 beds at the downtown hospital were set aside in … [Read more...] about Being the Gap: Chaplains and COVID-19
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Welby Secretly Volunteers as COVID Chaplain
The Anglican Communion’s chief spiritual leader has been secretly volunteering as a chaplain on the coronavirus wards at one of London’s largest hospitals, according to a recent article in The Daily Telegraph. Sources at London’s St. Thomas Hospital, which is located just across the street from Lambeth Palace, confirm that the Most Rev. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of … [Read more...] about Welby Secretly Volunteers as COVID Chaplain
Dorm Idea on Hold
By Matthew Townsend The Diocese of Atlanta has withdrawn a rezoning proposal necessary to build a 106-bedroom private dormitory that would replace its small campus chapel at the University of Georgia in Athens. Online Athens reports that the withdrawal followed a meeting of the Athens-Clarke County commissioners in which developers heard serious concerns about traffic and … [Read more...] about Dorm Idea on Hold