ABOUT TIM LAJOIE
Tim Lajoie is an author, board-certified chaplain, former law-enforcement and corrections professional, and educator whose writing explores faith, human dignity, leadership, suffering, redemption, and the questions that emerge when life becomes difficult.
His professional life has taken him into places where people often confront consequential questions: correctional institutions, law enforcement, classrooms, and the homes and bedsides of people approaching the end of life. Across those very different settings, he has developed a particular interest in what happens when ordinary conversation moves beyond the surface and people begin talking about the things that matter most.
As a hospice chaplain, Tim has spent hundreds of hours accompanying patients and families through serious illness, grief, uncertainty, faith, doubt, reconciliation, and loss. His fiction draws upon the emotional truth of those experiences while creating original characters and stories that invite readers into those conversations for themselves.
The Chaplain’s Chair: Conversations at the Edge of Life is his first novel. His other writing includes essays and nonfiction exploring chaplaincy, theology, leadership, corrections, and the spiritual significance of ordinary human encounters.
Stories about faith, life, and the conversations that matter.
BACKGROUND & CREDENTIALS
Board-Certified Chaplain (BCC)
Academic Background
Liberty University
M.A., Theological Studies
M.A., Management & Leadership
M.S., Criminal Justice
B.A., Religion
Boston Baptist College
A.S., Biblical Studies, 1998
Th.G., Theology, 1998
Professional Background
Hospice Chaplain
Former Law Enforcement Chaplain
Adjunct Instructor of World Religions
Adjunct Instructor of Criminal Justice — Corrections
Former Corrections & Law-Enforcement Professional
U.S. Coast Guard Veteran
WHY I WRITE
Much of my writing begins with conversations.
After years spent working with people in hospitals, hospice, corrections, classrooms, and other places where life becomes very real, I have become interested in the questions people ask when the usual distractions fall away.
What matters? What do we regret? What do we believe? What do we owe one another? Where is God in suffering? And what do we do with the time we have?
My writing explores those questions through stories, essays, and reflections drawn from the places where human experience becomes real. I don't write to provide easy answers. I write to create the kind of conversation that stays with a reader after the last page.
Stories about faith, life, and the conversations that matter.
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