Journal of Sacred Work

Caregivers have superpowers! Radical Loving Care illuminates the divine truth that caregiving is not just a job. It is Sacred Work.

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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

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About

Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

Category: Meditations

  • Memory

    (The following entry was written by Cathy Self, Sr. V.P. of the Baptist Healing Trust) “…I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try…

  • Love Within

    So much of our lives seems to be governed by things from without that we may forget that Love is a force that grows from within each of us. Much is made of life battles between the forces of good and evil. But it is Love that is seeking to guide us amid both good…

  • Open Forum

       The Open Forum is an opportunity for you to post a comment on whatever you would like. A good choice might be for you to mention a caregiver whose presence you value and to describe why you think that caregiver has such a sense of grace.   To post your comment, click on Comment (below).…

  • Encountering Yourself

    …why not consider/ a lasting truce with yourself and God.-Hafiz (left, early 14th century)    And while you’re at it, why not declare a lasting truce between you and yourself? Is the world in which you live served by you beating up on yourself?    Our presence is our most valuable asset. We may say…

  • Smoldering Energy

    As fires burn across too much of Southern California and people flee homes that have held comfort, I think of the spark beneath fear and another kind of fire. Those threatened by flames today may not appreciate, at this moment, the beauty of the fire within each of us – the fire that lives as…

  • Hooky

       I’m doing my best to play hooky. I watched the Red Sox win the American League pennant Sunday night instead of writing a post for you (and a sweet victory it was.) But hooky is always a hard thing to enjoy. The voice of guilt pops up in the middle of the hooky experience…

  • Open Forum

    Today is an occasion for you to share, in this space for caregivers, whatever is on your heart. Caregivers are often each others own best counselors. To make a comment, click on Comment (below.) You do not need to post a URL.Thank you for participating in The Journal of Sacred Work-Erie

  • What Stops Us From Helping?

    Religious tradition suggests the Good Samaritan had the capacity to feel compassion. It seems however that today we are more likely to act from self-interest. How many times do we, like the travelers in the story of the Good Samaritan, cross to the other side of the road (albeit sometimes only figuratively) to avoid the…

  • Fellowship of the broken

    he geometry of Love is circular. That is the reason why Love never ends. When we sit in a circle and share, Love is awakened. She travels with us as we listen, share, and find ourselves refreshed.

  • Sports Insanity

    It’s fun to watch games. And I hope you will cheer for the Red Sox (currently down 2-1 against Cleveland.) But the real victors every night and day are America’s caregivers – the ones who dress the world with Love.