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Inspired
Inspired is the nation's leading public radio show about faith, ethics and spirituality. Each week we offer you analyses of the big headlines alongside lesser-told stories – those of Orthodox Jewish artists and African-American atheists, Muslim feminists and spiritual seekers. Through these stories, a rough sketch of our country’s religious landscape begins to emerge. It’s a marketplace of beliefs and ideas too complex for sound bites, and too important to ignore.
This week on Interfaith Voices:
The Zen Thing
Koshin Paley Ellison is one of a small but growing number of chaplains in the United States who are Buddhists. In fact, Koshin is a Zen Buddhist monk. He works in hospice, and his goal is to take “the Zen thing” out into the world…and change the very nature of caregiving itself. Produced by Will Coley and KalaLea. Music by LD Brown.
Koshin Paley Ellison, co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care
Mindfulness in Medicine
We speak to a palliative care physician and a Buddhist chaplain about contemplative care — a mindful approach to the patient-caregiver relationship that could even be an antidote to empathy fatigue and doctor burnout.
Craig Blinderman, associate professor, director of Adult Palliative Care Service at Columbia University Medical Center
Tim Ford, fellow at the Transforming Chaplaincy project
This series is supported by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation.
The House of Mourning
Kate Braestrup is an unusual chaplain. She ministers to game wardens – people who come to the aid of hunters, fishermen, and hikers who’ve had mishaps in the wilderness. In this story, Braestrup tells the story of a young girl’s unusual request, and how it lead her to believe that the bereaved should be trusted to see the body of their loved one. This story first aired on The Moth.
Kate Braestrup is a chaplain to the Maine Warden Service and author of Anchor and Flares
Kate’s story is included in a new book by The Moth called All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
We also asked Koshin Paley Ellison to read a couple of poems that have taken on special meaning for him in his work as a hospice chaplain. He shares with us “The Gate” and “The Last Time” by Marie Howe
