A Chaplain Honour Roll
Kudos to Mad Padre’s Man In Norwich for telling me about this website dedicated to UK war memorials. Very much a work in progress at the moment, but the author […]
With The Royal Highland Fusiliers Of Canada
My friend Padre Neil is away this month at the Canadian Forces Leadership School in St. Jean, QC, getting the official training and qualifications to set the seal on his […]
How Not To Cover Religious Diversity In The Military
Not that I was expecting the UK’s Mirror of aspiring to the journalistic standards of more posh newspapers, but I was disappointed that a link from today’s UK MOD news service […]
Remembering Two Canadian Chaplains Who Fell On D-Day
Honourary Captain / Rev. George Alexander Harris. Originally from Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Harris was the Padre to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, and died on D-Day at the […]
Thirty Anglican Chaplains Walk Into A Bar
Which we did, at various times during last week during our annual Retreat. This crew is a sizeable chunk of the Anglican Military Ordinariate, the body of Anglican Church of […]
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, […]
Jacqueline Whitt On US Military Chaplains Two Years After DADT
A scholar I wasn’t aware of today but am now tracking is Jacqueline E. Whit, a professor of strategy at the US Air War College and published University of North […]
A Chaplain’s Christmas in Italy, 1943
A very merry Christmas to all of you. Not a lot to say of late, as graduate school has taken up much of my attention and time this fall, and […]
With Sergeant Camopatch In Afghanistan
My friend Phil Burrows, an Anglican priest and British Army Padre with the Second Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, writes from Helmand Province in Afghanistan to tell me about a colleague […]
“No Two Days Are Ever The Same”: An RAF Padre’s Work In Afghanistan
A nice little piece in today’s UK MOD blog) on the work of Reverend (Flight Lieutenant) Matt Buchan, a reservist chaplain with the Royal Air Force currently serving Royal Air […]