By: Catherine Wu
29 days ago
When Chaplain Walter Bryen walks into a patient room at Stanford Medicine Children’s Hospital (SMCH), he might hand a rosary to a devout grandmother, then turn to her grandchild — who believes in nothing at all — and help them feel connected to something larger than themselves. The chaplain’s role, Bryen wrote to The Daily, “is to be present with all the people in the family and affirm and acknowledge their faith or their no faith,” whether the divide runs between a devout grandparent and a secular teenager, or between a Muslim parent and a Christian one, as Bryen sees often.
