Spiritual care creates a space for you to bring any and all parts of yourself. A spiritual care provider offers a calm presence, can provide spiritual resources, and share in practices like meditation, storytelling, or prayer. Tufts chaplains are able and eager to offer you space. Space to deepen your religious or philosophical identities, space to process a difficult event, space to explore your own big questions. Tufts chaplains can provide insights from a particular tradition and accompany you as you determine what is true for you. Chaplains are also available to check in when you are just not feeling like yourself.

At Tufts, chaplains offer spiritual care. They are trained to provide care to anyone in the Tufts community. All Tufts chaplains are affirming of all gender identities and sexual orientations. All chaplains are confidential. At Tufts, this means they are not mandated reporters. You can learn more about each of the chaplains on our Meet the Team page, and contact them through their emails or by emailing the University Chaplaincy.

A spiritual care provider offers a calm presence, can provide spiritual resources, and share in practices like meditation, storytelling, or prayer. People often seek spiritual care to process grief, for support in their identity formation, and to seek the wisdom of a particular tradition through prayer, scripture study, or meditation. Chaplains are also available to check in when you just aren’t feeling like yourself.

Our chaplains are trained to provide care to anyone in the Tufts community. You are also welcome to contact a chaplain within a tradition that you are familiar with, or a chaplain in any faith or wisdom tradition. You do not have to have to have any familiarity with religious or philosophical traditions to connect with and be supported by a Tufts chaplain.

Spiritual care sessions can range from a one-time meeting to a couple of times in a semester. A session is usually about an hour. Your chaplain will work with you to identify other support resources, should that be helpful to you.

Chaplains are trained through their education, ordination, and spiritual care experience to be resources on the spiritual journeys of diverse people. While chaplains are endorsed by a particular tradition or organization to serve in their role and have unique expertise in that tradition, they all are expected to work in a multifaith capacity. Some chaplains undergo clinical training through programs like Clinical Pastoral Education.

The chaplains support the leaders of our student communities and help create programming for specific religious and philosophical traditions. Chaplains are available as a confidential support resource to anyone, including members of our student communities.

Our religious and philosophical organizations (RPSOs) make space for community members to live out and explore their spiritual identities. They are important points of connection for many students at Tufts, and are supported by our student leaders, chaplain staff, and collaborative partners across the university.

The contact information for the student leaders of our RPSOs is available on our Student Communities web page.