Subscribe to CRN blog updates

Choose the audiences you want to hear from. Select All for every audience, or select one or more individual audiences.


We use your email only for the updates you request.
Audience updates
Choose at least one. All cannot be combined with another audience.
Loading audience choices…

BLOG-013 | Sacred Listening for Chaplains: Attention Before Answers active-listening care-seekers communication-skills field-guide formation ministry-of-presence new-chaplain volunteer Jul 30, 2026

A chaplain can enter a room with sound training, good intentions, and a full list of helpful resources, yet still miss the person in front of them. The problem is rarely a lack of words. More often, the chaplain has not become quiet enough to receive what the person is actually saying.

Sacred liste...

Continue Reading...
BLOG-009 | Ministry of Presence: How to Show Up When You Can't Fix It being-with care-seekers deep-listening how-to ministry-of-presence new-chaplain presence volunteer Jul 20, 2026

Formation for the chaplain's own inner life. Part of our Ministry of Presence series.

The hardest calls are the ones you cannot solve. A parent sits in a hospital hallway after the worst news of their life. A firefighter stares at the floor after a call that went wrong. A neighbor loses the person ...

Continue Reading...
BLOG-006 | Community Chaplaincy: The Ministry of the Near Neighbor community-chaplaincy field-guide ministry-of-presence neighbor-care new-chaplain partners sustainable-practice volunteer Jul 18, 2026

Community chaplains work in the ordinary places where people already live: neighborhood centers, shelters, food banks, disaster sites, small businesses, and civic gatherings. They do not wait for people to walk into a hospital or a station house. They go to the corner where life happens and stay lon...

Continue Reading...