Why this female chaplain has more faith in human connection than ever before: via NewYorker
Chaplains, who provide existential support in secular contexts—from prisons to colleges to airports—have been working, in some way or another, since ancient royals staffed their courts with priests. Their job, as Butler sees it, is to accompany people who did not want or expect to be where they are, and to comfort their loved ones. Her priority, when doing that job, is to listen.
Recently, a nurse asked Butler where God was in all this. Butler does not believe that there is one right answer to that question. “For myself, I don’t see the disaster as something that is made or wrought by God,” she said. “I think God shows up in the places where people are trying to save lives and clean up this mess that others have mismanaged.” Butler told the nurse that God was right here, crying with us.
Instead, she found that she was called to ministry. After seminary, she began a chaplaincy residency at Mount Sinai, where her clinical supervisor was David Fleenor, an Episcopalian priest who directs the hospital’s clinical pastoral education program. The residency was something of an accident—Butler had needed a job, and this one had presented itself. She had never spent much time in a hospital, and she had one year to learn a new profession.
Butler lives alone, in Harlem, and on a recent Thursday morning she took the bus to work. She wore burgundy Uniqlo pants, a navy shirt, and old, peeling Clarks heels. At the hospital, Butler knows that the stream of doctors, nurses, and tests can be confusing, and she often tells patients to ask for the chaplain with the big hair, if they forget her name. But sometimes her work only tangentially involves a patient. That afternoon, for example, Butler took a call: a man had died, suddenly, of-19.
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