Kenneth Brown, assistant director of first-generation student support services at Elon University, is continuing his journey toward becoming a chaplain. Though Brown can’t pinpoint the specific moment he decided to become a chaplain, he said the discovery of this passion was more like pulling the strings from various areas of his life together as he explored what made him “come alive.”.
Rev. Kirstin Boswell, Elon’s university chaplain and dean of multifaith engagement, said a chaplain is someone who supports people in their faith and spiritual journeys, within an institutional setting.
“We are helping people to figure out their pathway forward, and how we can support that from the wisdom that we’ve learned from the world’s great religious, spiritual, and ethical traditions,” Boswell said…