Pediatric spiritual care in complex medical contexts requires the ability to shift perspectives rapidly. Care with a child must be age appropriate, while care to the family is also grounded in sociocultural perspectives. Furthermore, the care must uphold the commitment to support the interdisciplinary staff that cares for children. A Practical Theology of Pediatric Chaplaincy empowers chaplains and religious leaders to stand in the liminal spaces to provide spiritual care to sick and dying children through privileging open and relational practical theologies, family systems theory, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Joshua Morris is a scholar-practitioner committed to clinically competent chaplaincy. He has served as a chaplain for over fifteen years within interreligious, intercultural, and multilingual contexts. Prior to his current academic position at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Morris served in pediatric healthcare for eleven years. He has been a board-certified chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) for over a decade and writes from the depths of his experience of providing responsible spiritual care to children, their families, and hospital staff

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