Rich Dixon is back with another story. +++ Everyone has a story. ~ Dick Foth The first thing we learned in Greenville, Mississippi, was that we didn’t speak the local language. The label on the map looked like “Green-ville.” But the proper pronunciation is more like “Gren-vul” or, even better, “Gren-vul, y’all.” The second thing […]

Some chaplain days have no space. The pager calls you to the Emergency Department three times in fifteen minutes. The pager calls you to three deaths in three hours. The pager calls you to two patient rooms for conversations in the same fifteen minutes and the same three hours. On those days, I’m learning about […]

It was a very challenging day for northern Indiana. Which meant that it was a very challenging day for people working in the hospital. Which meant that it was a very challenging day for chaplains. As each new unrelated event happened, coworkers would look at each other and say, “What is going on?” Some people […]

God. We are anxious. We are anxious to and anxious about.We are longing to and longing for.And we are, a little, dreading. Then we read about Moses on a mountain with you. You tell him you care. And in the middle of the cloud of your presence, hearing the whispers of your voice, with the experience of eighty years […]

“Would you like to talk that through?” my colleague said. I was going to be talking to a family about a situation. I’ve talked with lots of families about situations, but never as a chaplain, needing to convey precise information. A colleague had helped me understand the information. She’d helped me with the details, with […]