Andrew Karlson
Credentials: MDiv, BCC
Position title: Manager, Spiritual Care Services
Pronouns: he/him/his
Email: AKarlson@uwhealth.org
Website: UW Health

The work of Spiritual Care in the hospital is the ongoing exploration of what it means to be human. The experience of illness and death, and of accompanying others through those times, calls up questions from the deepest parts of us. My engagement with the humanities reminds me that some questions are sufficient unto themselves, and call for patient presence rather than answers. In the words of Rainier Maria Rilke, “…the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer