Why I'm Never Going to be Offered a Job as a Hospital Chaplain
I’ve never pictured myself as having any aptitude for hospital work. nnI appreciate that hospitals are an ideal context in which to offer care and compassion to persons in need, but such relationships are always short-term, and hence seem somewhat artificial to me. Certainly I could never see myself as a hospital chaplain - managing a constant turnover of such intense, short-term relationships.nnEven so, when I found myself in hospital, not through any deliberate planni