The Harvard Gazette

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Cheryl Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling, has spent over 30 years counseling young people and teaching others to follow in her footsteps.

Lessons of self-care, while caring for others

HDS lecturer dedicates her life to the counsel and teaching of young people

Campus|

DateNovember 9, 2016November 9, 2016

To be with someone in death is a beautiful, profound, and almost biblical experience, said Annette Nicolas, a Boston Theological Institute student enrolled in a hospital chaplaincy course at Harvard Divinity School. “I feel blessed to be in that position, and to also study spiritual caregiving at HDS.”

The last companions

Divinity School program helps teach chaplains how to befriend and comfort the sick and the dying

World|

DateSeptember 23, 2015March 22, 2019

Richard Griffin '51 sits in Memorial Church. Richard is 85 and lives close by on Howland Street. During the Vietnam War protest era he was Roman Catholic chaplain at Harvard. He stays active by swimming daily and writing a syndicated newspaper column on senior living. Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

Ministry of friendship

Richard Griffin ’51, once a Harvard chaplain, offers the everyday solace of kindness

Campus|

DateDecember 13, 2013March 1, 2018