Spokane hospice chaplain’s new book challenges comfort clichés at life’s end

Spokane hospice chaplain’s new book challenges comfort clichés at life’s end
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA); by Mia Gallegos; 8/25/25
“Hospice Chaplain: Interrupted” examines how caring for the dying transforms the caregiver, exploring the profound discomfort and unexpected revelations that emerge when chaplains sit with patients at life’s end. Written by the Rev. Scott Kinder-Pyle, a hospice chaplain and Presbyterian ordained minister in Spokane, the collection of poems following an introductory essay challenges some of the typical mechanisms pursued by those who accompany people within their final moments of life.