US Army Chaplain (Col) Mike Lembke, having returned from his third tour in Iraq, recently spoke to the 19th annual Four Chaplains Prayer Breakfast in York, Pennsylvania.  The local article notes Chaplain Lembke has “emphasized religious unity throughout his career.”

Throughout his career he’s found his main emphasis is to create religious acceptance within units. Lembke said he’s work alongside Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist chaplains – each caring for soldiers’ needs and working together for unity. 

Unit leaders also have learned how to help their soldiers practice their faith, by helping with special religious dietary needs or observing holidays.

“I think we’re doing a good job,” he said. “It’s something we’ve been very intentional about.”

Importantly, organizations like the Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation generally emphasize “unity without uniformity” among people of different faiths.  The concept emphasizes cooperation without compromise, a spirit in which people of different faiths can respect each others’ right to have beliefs without accepting those beliefs.

Chaplain Lembke was the command Chaplain at Fort Hood when the massaacre occurred in 2009, and helped create the Mountaintop Experience in Iraq in 2010.

Via the Army Chaplaincy blog.