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Dan Shenk

Dan Shenk

Rev. Dan Shenk - AIDS activist, founding member of Bailey House, and retired chaplain to people living with HIV/AIDS and incarcerated individuals in New York City.

Jul 8, 2026

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From Mennonite Missionary Kid to AIDS Activist: Dan Shenk's Story

Jul 8 · 1h 7m

EliseHOST
38:38
Yeah.
Dan Shenk
Dan ShenkGUEST
38:39
Okay.
Dan Shenk
Dan ShenkGUEST
38:40
It's in a lot of literature, fiction, people write about it, you think.
Dan Shenk
Dan ShenkGUEST
38:46
So my job with the council churches was to visit chaplains assigned to those city-run hospitals.
Dan Shenk
Dan ShenkGUEST
38:54
Another hospital was Bird Kohler on Randall's Island, a hospital for the chronically ill.
Dan Shenk
Dan ShenkGUEST
39:02
Well over 1,000 people are in Bird Kohler.
Dan Shenk
Dan ShenkGUEST
39:05
Well, all those places have chaplains, and many of them had worked for years in these institutions, really quite isolated, many of them eccentric as hell.

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CarrieHOST
44:35
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