Spiritual Care

Finding Our Way as Seasons Change As I write, a cold September rain is beating down upon the great roof of Beacon Hill. Like the little drummer boy, the droplets of water are singing [...]

Welcome God into Your Out-of-Control Moments A few months ago, I was relishing in the onset of Spring. Warmer weather meant fertile ground for tilling and planting the garden. The hope for new [...]

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 [...]