For Chaplains & Spiritual Caregivers
News: ICJS to Offer 2025 Capacity-Building Grants for Chaplains
With the support of the Bunting Family Foundation, the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS) is launching a Capacity-Building Grant program for organizations with volunteer chaplains and/or up to three staff chaplains to pay for supplies, professional development, or other resources. ICJS will offer the grants of up to $1,000 each to specifically address the interreligious needs of chaplains in small organizations with limited access to these and other resources.
Chaplains working by themselves or with smaller organizations just don’t have access to the training and support available at larger entities, such as major hospital systems. We are offering these grants to help fill that resource gap.
Join an ICJS Interreligious Spirituality Group
The ICJS Interreligious Spirituality Group for spiritual care providers and chaplains is a free professional development opportunity to build connections with other spiritual care providers and deepen interreligious learning.
Survey: Mapping chaplains’ needs in Maryland
In partnership with the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, ICJS conducted a statewide survey of chaplains in Maryland. The results, which have been published in a downloadable eBook, “Chaplains in Maryland: Mapping and Assessing Needs,” have given us a groundbreaking glimpse into the lives of chaplains. The data reveals a portrait of chaplaincy that spans across religious differences, communities, and work sectors. Maryland chaplains shared their challenges and needs with us, along with the beauty they find in interfaith work. ICJS is committed to serving them, and these results will inform our approaches to future support programming and educational opportunities.
One of the things I love about chaplaincy is there’s so much diversity… most people that I meet are really different from a faith perspective.
Chaplain Lunch and Learn Events On Demand
Providing Spiritual Care to the Religiously Unaffiliated
During this online event, Pastor Sue Pizor Yoder shared her insights from the last 5 years she has spent creating community for unaffiliated individuals who are seeking spiritual connection outside congregational walls.
Confronting Antisemitism and Islamophobia as Chaplains
In the wake of the conflict in Israel and Gaza, six organizations have created a task force to address growing antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias. During this lunch and learn we heard from the task force about the purpose of their partnership and how they are working to support chaplains and spiritual care providers.
Spiritual Care for the Grieving
During this Chaplain Lunch and Learn, the panelists identified different forms of loss, how to support grieving care recipients, and the role spirituality and religion can play in navigating individual and collective grief.
Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Perspectives on Spiritual Care
This event featured an interactive discussion with four chaplains from four traditions—Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish—to explore how spiritual care is understood and practiced within their contexts.
