Episode 27: Tragedy, suffering, grief in light of Uvalde, Texas, shooting with Jennifer Prechter

27/05/2022 35 min Episodio 27
Episode 27: Tragedy, suffering, grief in light of Uvalde, Texas, shooting with Jennifer Prechter

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Dean Weaver, EPC Stated Clerk, welcomes Jennifer Prechter, EPC Teaching Elder who serves as a palliative care chaplain at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Orlando, Florida. The two discuss Prechter's journey to hospital chaplaincy, and how her ministry provides opportunity for addressing deep questions of life with unchurched people across a wide spectrum of life experience. Prechter also discusses how “longing and lament” can help people process tragedies such as a child with a terminal illness, or the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.