A Spiritual Guide Along the Cancer Journey. UCLA Health News. Chaplain Michael Eselun helps people address the big questions that often accompany a cancer diagnosis.

Tend to Your Spirit by Michael Eselun, BCC – Coping with Cancer, www.copingmag.com

Cancer and the holidays: The season may feel different, but there’s space for hope. Michael Eselun, BCC, explores ways of meeting the holiday season when our circumstance don’t exactly rhyme with “Joy to the World!”

When Cancer Calls Into Question Everything You Thought You Knew by Michael Eselun, BCC - Coping with Cancer, www.copingmag.com

My Trip to the Holy Land by Michael Eselun – Connotation Press, www.connotationpress.com

Bed or Chair? Does Spiritual Care Look the Same? by Michael Eselun – PlainViews/HealthCare Chaplaincy Network 

It’s Magic by Michael Eselun, BCC - Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Volume 73, Issue 3, September 2019, Pages 185-186

10 Thoughts On What Truly Matters. KCET Arts and Entertainment. On Tuesday, December 3, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture wrapped up a 10-week series of public conversations called 10 Questions: Centennial Edition. The final discussion, “What matters?” may have been the most challenging. It featured Ali Behdad, professor of literature and director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA; Kristy Edmunds, artist, curator, and executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA; and Michael Eselun, chaplain for the Simms-Mann/UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology. Here are ten things we learned along the way.

Celebrating Life While Honoring Death
Michael Eselun, Clearity’s Oncology Chaplain, sat down with our Director of Education, Danielle Peterson, to discuss what occasions like the Jewish New Year Celebration, Rosh Hashanah, and Día de los Muertos can teach us about the role the contemplation of death has on the celebration of life.