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Finding Comfort in Hard Times with Rev. Earl Johnson
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Brent Carey on 11/01/2022 09:30:00
 
Feeling exhausted, confused, and stressed out? This has been another tough year,
and we may have survived intense emotions and spiritual pain. The Rev. Earl
Johnson joins me to offer guidance on maintaining hope and relationships with
people and things that matter, finding comfort during hard times, and entering
the new year with hope.
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As the national spiritual care manager for the American Red Cross, Rev. Earl E.
Johnson, recruited, screened, trained, and deployed highly credentialed
healthcare chaplains to mass fatality events for ten years. From plane crashes
to school shootings, Johnson was part of a team that assessed and planned
emotional and spiritual support for the victims and loved ones of these horrific
unanticipated events.
Johnson has appeared on MSNBC and CNN State of the Union with Candy Crowley to
advocate for families of those lost in the Malaysian air incident. He lectured
at Michigan State, Michigan, and Radford/Virginia Tech disaster preparedness
conferences. In the past decade, he coordinated professional spiritual care
support to fatal domestic aviation incidents, massive Gulf hurricanes including
Katrina, Rita, and Gus, the Virginia Tech shootings, and Orlando.
Johnson is an ordained Disciples minister, Yale Divinity graduate, and Board
Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains. He served
Disciples and UCC parishes in Missouri and New York before his chaplaincy
training at Memorial Sloan Kettering/New York Presbyterian (Cornell), and New
York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn. Rev. Johnson was the Protestant Staff
Chaplain at Cabrini Medical Center (now closed) from 1996-2001, when he moved
from lower Manhattan to Arlington, Va., on Sept. 9, 2001, to work as a chaplain
educator at Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center. Johnson was an adjunct instructor
at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY) from 1992-2001.
Johnson is the author of Finding Comfort During Hard Times, one of the ten best
health and wellness books of 2021, according to Booklist of the American Library
Association.