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They All Have a Story Aug 30, 2026

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What does it mean to respect someone who has committed a serious crime? Drawing from his years working inside correctional institutions, Tim Lajoie reflects on accountability, remorse, repentance, and the possibility of redemption. Correctional ministry does not require minimizing what someone has done or ignoring the consequences. It means recognizing that even people who have done terrible things are more than the worst thing they have ever done—and that every person has a story.

For more from Tim, visit timlajoie.com.

I Wouldn’t Promise Her. Aug 30, 2026

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A hospice patient once asked Tim Lajoie a simple but deeply personal question: “Will you be there when I die?” He wanted to say yes, but he wouldn't make a promise he couldn't guarantee. In this true patient encounter, Tim reflects on honesty, trust, uncertainty, Christian hope, and why good spiritual care sometimes means resisting the temptation to offer easy reassurance.

For more from Tim, visit timlajoie.com.

What I Bring Into the Room Aug 30, 2026

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What does good chaplaincy look like? In this episode, Tim Lajoie shares his personal approach to spiritual care—one built on relationship, honest conversation, careful listening, authenticity, humor, and respect. He discusses what it means to enter another person's space, why listening doesn't require a chaplain to become a blank slate, and how he approaches faith, difficult questions, disagreement, and the privilege of being invited into someone's story.

For more from Tim, visit timlajoie.com.

Why I Wrote The Chaplain's Chair Aug 30, 2026

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Why did Tim Lajoie write The Chaplain’s Chair? In this episode, he reflects on what hospice patients taught him about the limits of therapeutic models, his own experiences when loved ones were dying, and why people facing life’s hardest moments often need honest conversation more than carefully managed responses. He also explains why he chose fiction to explore faith, regret, forgiveness, family, and the questions people begin asking when time is short.

For more from Tim, visit timlajoie.com.

The Chaplain's Chair is Back-- And I Wrote a Book! Aug 29, 2026

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The Chaplain’s Chair is back.

In this return episode, Tim Lajoie reintroduces the podcast and shares what listeners can expect from the show going forward—conversations about faith, life, grief, hope, forgiveness, leadership, chaplaincy, and the questions that matter.

Then Tim introduces his forthcoming novel, The Chaplain’s Chair: Conversations at the Edge of Life, and the hospice chaplain at the center of the story, Thomas Vale.

The podcast is back. Pull up a chair.

Welcome to The Chaplain's Chair Aug 21, 2026

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The Chaplain's Chair is a distinctly Christian podcast about faith, life, and the conversations that matter.

Author and Christian board-certified chaplain Tim Lajoie shares stories and reflections from hospice, corrections, ministry, leadership, and everyday life—grounded in biblical truth and honest conversation.

Chaplain care is soul care, and soul care begins with telling you the truth.

So pull up a chair.