My Interview With Inside Your Head Podcast on Grief and Loss
In my yesterday (Oct 17) I referenced an interview I did with an English-based podcast, Inside Your Head, that’s dedicated to mental health. The host, Henry Hyde, is mostly […]
Books on the Go: The Fighting Padre, the Great War Letters of Pat Leonard
I made the mistake of browsing the excellent Pen and Sword website recently and in due course three books arrived in the post (trans-Atlantic mail has improved remarkably since the start of Covid) […]
Coming to the End
Last week I went to Base Supply and turned in the last of my issued kit. The stuff in the photo is part of it. The […]
The Chaplain Kit: An Online Resource for Chaplains
Hello: I am posting a link to a US website called The Chaplain Kit, an online resource centre for military chaplaincy in an American context. Some interesting resources including a […]
Canadian Armed Forces Chaplain General’s Prayer, Remembrance Day, 2018
We gather today on this hallowed ground on which is interred Canada’s Unknown Soldier, to remember all those who made the ultimate sacrifice. On the Centennial of the signing […]
Faithful Till The End: Canadian Military Chaplains in the Last Days of the Great War
No Canadian scholar knows the history of Canadian military chaplaincy in the Great War better than my friend, Dr. Duff Crerar. In these notes which Duff kindly shared with myself […]
Remembering Canada’s First Black Military Chaplain
A colleague here at the Canadian Forces Chaplain School and Centre was reviewing our new chaplain history curriculum and asked me why our first African-Canadian chaplain was not included. Because […]
Tubby Clayton: A Commission From Tim Godden
In my previous post I mentioned the British artist Tim Godden, who specializes in images of the Great War and of Edwardian sports figures. His style captives me – there’s […]
Remembering Canadian Great War Chaplains in the Hundred Days
The text below is from an email sent by my friend and colleague, Dr. Duff Crerar, author of Padres in No Man’s Land (McGill Queen’s 1995, 2nd ed 2014). Duff regularly […]
No, Mr. President, There Isn’t A Religious Freedom Problem In The Military
US Army chaplain visits a simulated casualty during a training exercise. My Twitter feed lit up a bit recently when this story aired on CNN, regarding comments by US […]