The Chaplaincy Institute is an Interfaith seminary, re-visioning theological education to serve our pluralistic world.
The Chaplaincy Institute's ordained interfaith ministers and chaplains:
• Provide compassionate, respectful spiritual care to people across the spectrum of culture and belief.
• Assist people in celebrating and ritualizing the cycles of life, including weddings and memorials.
• Support people in finding meaning within life, crisis, suffering, and loss, as well as sorting out their relationship to the Great Mystery.
The Chaplaincy Institute's Interfaith Ordination program includes studies in: world religions, spiritual psychology, Interfaith theology, dreamwork, spiritual care, ceremonial ministry, and community ministry. Practical skills are emphasized for inclusive Interfaith ministry that is sensitive to faith-specific nuances.
The Chaplaincy Institute’s talented faculty create a rich multimodal learning environment. With teachings from leaders of the religious communities that we are learning about, bridges of understanding are built to these ancient faiths and cultural traditions.
We believe the Divine is too big to be contained solely within any one religion. An Interfaith perspective embraces the universal truths in the world's spiritual traditions and honors the beautiful diversity in human experience, along with our essential unity.
For more information about the Interfaith Ordination program, click here and here.
The above "Interfaith: Basket of Blessings" painting is available for purchase as a fine art print, with a portion of the purchase price supporting ChI. For details, click here.
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Art is prayer made visible
Music is prayer made audible
Dance is prayer embodied
But the greatest art we practice
Is the art of compassion
Which is prayer in action and service.
—Rev. Dr. Gina Rose Halpern