Dear Brothers and Sisters in God’s family,

I am happy to welcome you to the website of Bishop Anderson House, the Episcopal Church’s ministry to the sick and those who care for them. We are located on the West Side of Chicago in the Illinois Medical District, one of the world’s largest urban medical districts. Over 85,000 people a day walk through the doors of its teaching hospitals; medical, nursing and health sciences colleges; research facilities and clinics.

We provide pastoral care by visiting the sick in hospitals and training volunteers who serve the sick in hospitals, nursing homes, congregations, hospice programs, and in other institutions. Bishop Anderson House is ecumenical, serving over 10,000 people annually from every religious tradition. We believe in a compassionate and loving God who seeks to bring comfort and hope to the suffering. Our chaplains seek to share that message of good news with people from disparate cultures and religions.

Bishop Anderson House serves as a crossroads of faith and science by teaching ethics in a medical school; collaborating with psychologists, chaplains, epidemiologists and physicians in the integration of spirituality and medicine; and by contributing to the field of research in this area.

Welcome to Bishop Anderson House. I invite you to explore this website and to ponder the mystery of our humanity which is both deeply spiritual and wondrously rational.

Sincerely,
The Rev. James L. Risk, BCC
Executive Director

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