About

Hardie Midkiff·com

I’m an ordained Baptist minister and chaplain. I’ve spent my career in the rooms where the ordinary vocabulary of hope runs out; hospitals, hospice, and the hard seasons where people carry what can’t be fixed.
That work has shaped how I write, teach, and think. Not theoretically. In practice.

Ministry

I serve as a healthcare chaplain, which means I sit with people in the hardest moments of their lives; patients, families, and staff navigating suffering, death, and the questions that don’t resolve. I am a Baptist minister by conviction and a chaplain to everyone, regardless of faith tradition or the absence of one.

Writing

This site is where I work out what I’m learning; about spiritual care, formation, faith, and the habits that shape a faithful life. I write about Advent. About presence. About what it looks like to follow Jesus in the ordinary and difficult days.

Background

I’ve served in pastoral ministry, hospice care, and healthcare chaplaincy. I’ve trained chaplains and ministry leaders, and I’ve built practical systems designed to support care rather than replace it. I’m a husband and father, and most of what I believe about grace I’ve learned at home.

Grace and Courage

Two things orient everything I do.

Grace - the gift that finds you where you are, not where you’re trying to get to.
Courage - the unwavering commitment to love, justice, and humility, even when it costs something.

Everything here is pointed in those two directions.