{"id":13510,"date":"2011-10-07T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13510"},"modified":"2011-10-06T22:53:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:53:06","slug":"chaplain-joins-in-on-life-on-the-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/chaplain-joins-in-on-life-on-the-front-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Joins In on Life on the Front Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Army Chaplain Stephen Hancock has an interesting article at the UK Ministry of Defense website on &#8220;life on the front line.&#8221;\u00a0 While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.uk\/DefenceInternet\/DefenceNews\/PeopleInDefence\/ArmyChaplainSpeaksOfLifeOnTheFrontLine.htm\">article is interesting on the whole<\/a>, Chaplain Hancock&#8217;s underlying premise of service is worth highlighting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I really believe in visibility, that a chaplain should be seen walking around talking to anybody and everybody. By doing that you build relationships and soldiers and officers will trust you. If you&#8217;re invisible you have no <!--more-->chance of achieving a great deal with them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to do what they&#8217;re doing, be with them, share with them, and then it&#8217;s incredible how, when you least expect it, they will come to you with their intimate pain and intimate secret.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd that is a real privileged position and you start to think &#8216;my presence is not wasted&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s an excellent articulation of why military Chaplains minister the way they do &#8212; shoulder to shoulder with the troops they serve, whether in garrison or on the front lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/madpadre.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/youve-just-got-to-join-in-tips-of-trade.html\">Mad Padre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Army Chaplain Stephen Hancock has an interesting article at the UK Ministry of Defense website on &#8220;life on the front line.&#8221;\u00a0 While the article is interesting on the whole, Chaplain Hancock&#8217;s underlying premise of service is worth highlighting: I really believe in visibility, that a chaplain should be seen walking around talking to anybody and everybody. By doing that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5284,2,10,171,2286],"class_list":["post-13510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-stephen-hancock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510","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=13510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}