The Power of Radical Loving Care
Your mother was crossing the street when she was struck by a speeding car. She is still conscious when she enters the emergency department but she is bleeding internally and externally. What kind of care do you want her to receive?

Your sister, the victim of a rape, is being interviewed by a social worker. How do you want that interview to be conducted? You are a paraplegic in need of extensive rehabilitation services. What is the chance that the long chain of people assigned to treat you will approach you with the respect you deserve?

In his book, Radical Loving Care, Erie Chapman created the concept as a full step beyond kindness and a quantum leap beyond customer service. Radical loving care is the compassion of the Good Samaritan who not only stops to help the wounded man fallen by the wayside, but carries him on his animal to an inn and pays for his care.

All love given unconditionally is radical because unconditional love is so rare. The goal of Radical Loving Care in organizations is to establish a culture that supports a continuous chain of compassion and quality.

America’s non-profit charities uniformly boast beautiful mission statements. When is the last time you entered a hospital, a nursing home or any other charity and saw love delivered in a continuous chain?

Radical loving care is a concept that challenges America’s charities to be who they say they are. And to create, for those they serve, a quality and texture of loving care so worthy it deserves the adjective, radical!

We invite you to learn more about Radical Loving Care through the dynamic and contemporary voices of care givers and the meditations of Erie Chapman in our Journal of Sacred Work.