Spiritual Care

Cultivating Friendship in a Vaccinated World I’ve lost the instinct to shake hands. After 15 months of not being allowed to extend my hand out as a welcoming gesture, it doesn’t even come to mind [...]

Spiritual Care in Practice Miriam[1] has been a churchgoer all her life. Growing up in a preacher’s home, she never missed a Sunday service. Often, she sat through two or more services each week. [...]

1 Year in a Pandemic Music played loud and my daughter and I laughed and danced as we enjoyed the daddy-daughter dance at her school. This was my last fun memory before the pandemic hit one year [...]

Beacon Hill at Eastgate Expert Series We’re delighted to announce that Mary Marks has earned her national board certification for chaplains (BCC). The purpose of earning a BCC is to demonstrate a [...]

Making Room for Peace It was cold and it was snowy, but this week my family and I got outside to practice one of our favorite traditions: cutting off all the branches of our Christmas tree, [...]

Embracing our differences It was a calm and peaceful morning. The sun had yet to rise and the house was still. It was the kind of moment you want to last forever. Then I heard the sound of those [...]

Don’t Wait for a Change in the Weather Standing outside on a frigid December day, I kept myself warm by getting as close to the fire as possible. My daughter was running around the backyard [...]

Letter Writing in Turbulent Times It’s been said that letter writing has become a lost art. With the onset of email, text messaging, and social media, the need for letters has become less [...]

Weary Expectation In recent weeks, I’ve been asked countless times by residents and staff, “When do you think this is all going to end?” This question is asked from a place of weariness and [...]

A Never Giving Up Kind of Love Jonathan was busy using his chainsaw in the woods next to their house. There were nearly fifty downed trees and he was determined to clear them, so that his [...]