“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– President John Adams, 11 October 1798
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A group of chaplains speak on their experiences and what the chaplaincy means to them:
Via Jews in Green.
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US Army SFC Dennis Dutton recently came to the MRFF for…help?…after this happened during his graduation from Abrahms Tank Maintainer school at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2012:
In case you missed it: He’s the one on the stage who didn’t bow his head.
Apparently, it is a point of pride that Read more
Chaplain (LtCol) Jason Logan:
Prayer Breakfasts are important because they address the soldier’s deeper needs. The Army believes fundamentally that the American soldier is more than just a body and that each soldier has unique needs. One of those specific needs – or pillars as we call them – is spiritual fitness.
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Michael Weinstein had toned down his conspiracy theories during the spate of negative press, but recently revived one of his favorites: That Christians are trying to take over the US military to start a nuclear war [edits original]:
People are suffering and the consequences are potentially nuclear war; an apocalypse, but not the biblical one. [Instead,] one [brought about] by this weaponized, twisted, poisonous version of Christianity Read more
A commentary by US Air Force Chaplain (Capt) Keith Beckwith takes a firm stand on the chaplain’s role in the US military:
A chaplain’s ultimate responsibility is to provide for the free exercise of religion, including those who express a specific religion and those who express no religion at all.
From my perspective, I am a chaplain to all, a pastor Read more
The Military Christian Fellowship of Australia published their Crossfire magazine, highlighting a picture from Afghanistan on the cover:
WO2 Andrew Hetherington Personnel attend a Bible reading at the Tarin Kot cenotaph during the stations of the cross Easter service at Multi National Base – Tarin Kot on March 27.
The support that militaries provide for their deployed Read more
Reports on the American Soldier Studies, with data gathered immediately following World War II, indicate Soldiers relied on prayer more — and other ideals less — as battles got tough. The study is entitled “Are There Atheists in Foxholes? Combat Intensity and Religious Behavior:”
The American Soldier studies were conducted by the Army’s Information and Education Division. An upcoming analysis of that data, to be published in the Journal of Religion and Health, finds when soldiers reported that battles became “more frightening,” as many as 72 percent of them turned to prayer as their primary source of motivation. When battles were Read more