I was in the emergency department, making some last connections between family and staff after a trauma. The pager buzzed. Fifth floor. Fifth floor could be a death, but probably not. It could be a need for a notary, maybe for someone wanting to talk to a chaplain. I’d been on that floor earlier that […]

Every Sunday morning, I lead the interdenominational hospital chapel service. Hardly anyone attends. We record it. It plays mid-morning and late evening all week long. People often attend. To make things simple, we use the Revised Common Lectionary. It gives a place to start for the service. It allows people from churches that use the […]

Rich Dixon is back in the middle of a field: +++ Last time, a man approached in the middle of nowhere. He’d emerged from a decaying shed. Tarpaper over the windows, patches on a sort-of-a-roof, door flapping in the breeze, the sort of building I wouldn’t have imagined someone lived in. He stopped about twenty […]

A couple hours after I write this, I’m heading to the hospital. I’ll be walking the halls, talking to staff. I’ll be showing up in the ER about the same time as the person coming from the crash or the person fearing a stroke or the person terrified about the baby that stopped moving. I […]

“I just don’t know what to think,” she said. The diagnosis hadn’t even been a diagnosis. It was a report that a scan had seen an object where there shouldn’t be an object. She wasn’t originally here for the scan, but someone noticed something amiss. Someone ordered a scan. And now she knew about an […]