Religion in Public Institutions

“Chaplaincy: A Powerful Resource for People of All Beliefs” The Aspen Institute, February 5, 2024.

“How do Americans think about chaplains?” London School of Economics Blog, November 27, 2023.

“American has a loneliness epidemic: How about religious faith as part of the solution” with Elan Babchuck Boston Globe. July 30, 2023

“American Religion Is Not Dead Yet” with Elan Babchuck. The Atlantic. January 16, 2023

New Book on the Evolving Role of Chaplains in Greater Boston, WBUR, Radio Boston, December 7, 2022.

Who’s Giving Americans Spiritual Care?” The Conversation, December 1, 2022

“Seeing the Whole Person and the Whole Pain,” Religion Unmuted Podcast, November 2022.

“How the role and visibility of chaplains changed over the past century” with Michael Skaggs.
The Conversation. June 1, 2022

“What’s Religion Got to Do With It?” with Penny Edgell. Brandeis University Magazine, Winter-Spring 2022.

“Preparing Chaplains to Serve Today’s Demands” with Shelly Rambo. London School of Economics, Religion and Global Society Blog. December 9, 2021.

“What Harvard’s humanist chaplain shows about atheism in America” with Penny Edgell. The Conversation. September 24, 2021.

“The Rise of the Chaplains.” The Atlantic. May 17, 2020.

“From Paris to Boston, the crucial role of fire chaplains” with Michael Skaggs. The Conversation. May 1, 2019.

“From bicycle to social movements, the changing role of chaplains in the US” with Michael Skaggs. The Conversation. November 14, 2018.

“Why Does Congress have a chaplain?” with Laura Olson. The Conversation. May 1, 2018

“As you travel, pause and take a look at airport chapels.” The Conversation. January 3, 2018

“Spiritual Care in Changing Times: Initial Glimpses from Theological Education” with Beth Stroud. The Huffington Post. December 18, 2017.

“On land or ship, port chaplains offer comfort to seafarers of the world.” Edwardsville Intelligencer. 7.23.17

“Congressional Chaplains: Can They Welcome All Religions and No Religion at All?” Religion & Politics. August 31, 2016

“A Hospital Tradition Remembers the Youngest Patients.” Religion & Politics. April 26, 2016

“Along the Edges of Faith: The Many Sectors of American Chaplaincy.” Religion & Politics. January 26, 2016.

“Paging God in Health Care.” The Huffington Post. February 25, 2013.

“Waiting for a Miracle? Perspectives from Health Care Providers.” The Huffington Post. September 24, 2012

“Speaking Different Languages: Physicians and Chaplains in Healthcare.” Psychology Today Blog. August 24, 2012.

“A Religious Hand in the Modern Temple of Science.” Brandeis Magazine. Summer 2012.

“Becoming a Spiritual Generalist? What Physicians Know about Religion and Spirituality.” The Huffington Post. July 31, 2012.

“Bow out, politics, prayer is personal.” Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 5, 2010. Op-Ed Page.

“A personal day of prayer: Let’s not nationalize or politicize our relationships to God,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, May 3, 2010, Op-Ed Page.

“Where medical, spiritual worlds meet at life’s end” with Heather M. Hinton, Baltimore Sun, October 4, 2009. Op-Ed Page

“When Medicine and Religion Conflict Around Children: The Case of Daniel Hauser.” Religion Dispatches, June 16, 2009.

“Physicians, ‘Conscience,’ and the Denial of Options.” Religion Dispatches, January 5, 2009.

“What We Pray.” Baltimore Sun. December 14, 2008. Op-Ed Page.

“The Blame Game” Immanent Frame, November 14, 2008