…a lot of us walk around with the first two bars of a symphony in our heads, imagining that someday, when we have a better idea of what comes next, we’ll start to play. Some of the most transformative moments in my life happened when a person or incident gave me the strength or abandonment to haul off and play to the end of that second bar and see what came next.
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My most popular post on this blog, far beyond the rest, has been the Level II CPE Learning Goals I set for myself for the second unit of my residency. With that in mind, I’m aware some may find it useful to see some examples of learning goals I wrote for Level I, back in September 2017 at the start of the first unit of my residency…
Below is a document is recently presented to my CPE group as a sample of my pastoral care. It is an alternative to the traditional CPE verbatim format, since after spending an entire year assigned to Adult Psych, where I have the responsibility and privilege […]
One of my assignments for my current unit of CPE was to write a paper reflecting on my own theological dynamics and how they inform my work in hospital chaplaincy. Below, I share my reflections from the final section of this paper: Ring the bells […]
After attending an exhibition of Edvard Munch at the Met Breuer, a brief reflection on art as another way to heal, pray, and do theology.