Training Articles for Chaplains

Chaplain Safety

• Getting the Bird

• Four Ways Safety Starts with Us

• Dealing with Difficult People

• Dealing with Hostile People

Chaplain Psychology & Self Care

• Coping & Resilience

• Stressful Moments

• Chaplains: The First Responders to First Responders

• Suicide and the First Responder

• Dear Mental Health Community

• The fight for Joy

• Compassion Fatigue (and Six Ways to Replenish Yourself)

• Interruptions are the ministry

• We had compassion, what changed?

• Dodging Burnout: 12 Tips for Dealing with Stress and Strain

• Your passions in life

• Forgiveness

• A case for compassion

• Trauma counseling

• 5 ideas with helping others find their story

Public Safety Chaplaincy 101

• Telling Stories

• A Chaplain that isn't seen is a chaplain that isn't used.

• I am a Fire Chaplain, not the morality police

• Street Cred

• You're not needed Chaplain

• Things that I hear that are wrong

• Caring for Dinosaurs

• The Professional "Volunteer" Chaplain

• Why Is a Chaplain Here?

• Ministry of Silence

• Chaplains as part of the rescue team

• What does it mean to be a professional chaplain

• 25 Things

• Banquet Chaplains

• Finding humor in life

Public Safety Chaplaincy 201

• Care Plans for Chaplains

• The Trauma and Church Disconnect

• Liars (Part 1)

• Liars (Part 2)

• Is It Our Job to Cure, or to Care?

• Culture and Grief

• Honest Ministry

• Chaplaincy and the Rise of the "Nones"

• A bad death

• Chaplaincy and Politics

• Chaplain as a good luck charm

• Gallows Humor and the Chaplain

• Medical Rehab

Public Safety Chaplaincy 301

• Do you have to agree with everything?

• Sacred Objects?

• Death Notifications and Children

• What to do when someone is fired

• Dealing with those who are high

• Chaplaincy’s Moses Complex and How to Change It

• Hidden Victims

Public Safety Chaplaincy 401 (Chaplaincy and the Law)

• Chaplaincy and the Law: What about Priest-Penitent Privilege?

• Chaplaincy and the Law: The Bladensburg Cross

• Chaplaincy and the Law: Elder Abuse

• Chaplaincy and the Law: Evangelism

• McDaniel v Paty and what it means for chaplains

• Differences between Pastors and Crisis Chaplains

Good Theology

• Where is God in this?

• Memorials

• Drawing Near to God

• Haven't been to church lately

• Chaplaincy: What is going on?

• Moral Injury

• The deeper spiritual questions

• Action/Reflection

• What makes a good crisis chaplain?

• The need for practical theology for public safety chaplains