From the hospital bedside to the streets, caring for each other’s spirits is a necessary part of transforming our world. Together, we’ll explore how the work of creating social change can be informed by the practices of chaplaincy, drawing on Rev. Abigail’s experiences as a healthcare chaplain and in social justice movements.
Rev. Abigail Clauhs is a Unitarian Universalist community minister who works as a healthcare chaplain here in Portland, providing spiritual care with a particular focus on palliative and end-of-life care. A Board Certified Chaplain who earned her M.Div. in Interfaith Chaplaincy from Claremont School of Theology, Rev. Abigail is deeply invested in the intersections of spiritual care and social justice work, from creating The Protest Chaplain's Handbook to ongoing organizing commitments. She's all about the good news of interdependence--from galaxies, to mycelium, to me and you--and the fierce love that liberation asks of us. She'll also happily nerd out with you about quantum physics, the lives of trees, and (as someone born and raised in the South) the beauty of "y'all" as a gender neutral plural pronoun.