Committing Faith in Public with Chaplain Jacob George

Chaplains can be found in all kinds of institutional roles these days, from Tyson Foods to the military and hospitals. The Rev. Dr. Jacob George is the director of pastoral care at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. After years in hospice work, he moved into the hospital setting.He is a Clinical Pastoral Education supervisor at the highest level, directs a very religiously-diverse program at Hillcrest, and also directs the congregationally-based CPE program at Phillips Theological Seminary. Jacob talked with Center for Religion in Public Life director Gary Peluso-Verdend by phone about his work at Hillcrest in normal times and during the extraordinary time of a global health crisis.Email Trista Soendker Nicholson, interim executive director of the Center for Religion in Public LIfe, to let her know about someone in the community you've seen practicing faithful disruption. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.