{"id":13045,"date":"2011-09-08T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13045"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:15:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:15:08","slug":"usafas-interfaith-council-serves-the-needy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/usafas-interfaith-council-serves-the-needy\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA&#8217;s Interfaith Council Serves the Needy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it seems they&#8217;re most often\u00a0the object of Michael Weinstein&#8217;s criticism, cadets who organize into faith groups recently made the news for the positive event of coming\u00a0together to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123270102\">support a local food bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Council members and chaplains spent two hours at Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado packing and palletizing boxes for distribution to families in need of assistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaplain (Capt) Shawn Menchion received permission from <!--more-->Superintendent LtGen Michael Gould for the Academy to participate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Interfaith Council consists of representatives from each of the Academy&#8217;s religious and philosophical groups. Some of the groups represented include Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Latter-Day Saints, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists and followers of Earth-Centered Spirituality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The group&#8217;s efforts were part of the larger challenge by President Obama &#8220;to become involved in interfaith cooperation and community service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it seems they&#8217;re most often\u00a0the object of Michael Weinstein&#8217;s criticism, cadets who organize into faith groups recently made the news for the positive event of coming\u00a0together to support a local food bank. Council members and chaplains spent two hours at Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado packing and palletizing boxes for distribution to families in need of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20,37,5284,96,73,44,39,189,85,2,5218,7,43,76,10,171,2127,65],"class_list":["post-13045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-atheism","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-hindu","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-michael-gould","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-obama","tag-pagan","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-shawn-menchion","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}