Turning Chaplains Into Military Ethicists
The Canadian Forces Chaplain School and Centre (CFChSC) at Canadian Forces Base Borden, where I work, started its annual Intermediate Ethics Course this week. The course is a career course […]
Book Review: David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service
David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service. Toronto: Bond Street Books, 2013. I am slowly working my way through a stack of books about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan […]
US Military To Recognize Humanism
The US Army announced recently that it would formally recognize humanism as a religious preference if soldiers elect to self-identify as humanists. For some time a US military member, […]
Deliver Us From … Hypocrisy: The US Senate Chaplain Speaks Truth To Power
He’s a clergyman who looks sharp in a bow tie. He’s a retired Rear Admiral US Navy chaplain with an impressive CV. He’s a Seventh Day Adventist preacher who […]
No More Non Christian Prison Chaplains Says Canadian Government
A friend of mine put me on to this story tweeted by the Canadian church’s Anglican Journal, reporting that the Canadian government will not renew contracts for non-Christian chaplains employed […]
A University Chaplain Brings Some Peace To Tense Campus
The tense campus is University of California at Davis, site of the now-viral images of a university peace officer casually pepper-spraying a row of sitting and apparently peaceful demonstrators on […]
For One US College, Chaplaincy is an Unnecessary Luxury
I noticed this story in the NYT last week. Smith College may be an obscure place, but the issues involved in the story, namely how to quantify the value that […]