The Long Walk Podcast.
Conversations on chaplaincy, pastoral care, and the practitioner's vocation — with the chaplains, agency leaders, and survivors who do the work.
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Episode pipeline (working)
- Ep 1 — Presence. Why being-with is the foundation of chaplaincy.
- Ep 2 — Confidentiality. The hardest discipline in pastoral work.
- Ep 3 — Moral injury. The wound that isn't PTSD.
- Ep 4 — Standing up a program. A practitioner conversation with an agency program coordinator.
- Ep 5 — Death notification. The first sentence and what comes after.
- Ep 6 — The multicultural pulpit. A pastor's journey across continents.
What the show is
Chaplaincy is a small field that mostly learns by apprenticeship, which means most of what practitioners know is never written down and never said out loud outside a debrief. The Long Walk exists to put some of those conversations on the record: what the work actually asks of a person, what nobody warns you about, and what the people who have done it for decades wish they had understood earlier.
Each episode is a conversation rather than a lecture, usually with a working chaplain, an agency leader, or someone who has been on the receiving end of a chaplain's presence on the worst day of their life. Dr. Mzizi hosts. Episodes run 30 to 45 minutes and publish fortnightly once the season starts.
Who it is for
Chaplains and aspiring chaplains, obviously. But also pastors weighing whether crisis ministry is theirs, agency administrators who have inherited a chaplaincy program and are not sure what good looks like, seminary students choosing a track, and the spouses and families who carry the second shift of this vocation without ever being asked.
No prior knowledge is assumed. Where an episode touches something the books treat in depth — the pastor and chaplain distinction, critical incident response, program design — the show gives the shape of it and points to the chapter rather than trying to compress a book into forty minutes.
Being a guest
Guests are practitioners first. If you are a chaplain, an agency administrator, a peer-support coordinator, or a survivor who has worked with a chaplain and would be willing to talk about it, get in touch. Topic suggestions are welcome too; several of the episodes below started as a listener question at a training event.
The show will be available wherever podcasts are, and every episode will be posted here with a written summary for people who would rather read than listen.
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