{"id":16226,"date":"2012-02-24T00:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16226"},"modified":"2012-02-21T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:00:15","slug":"chaplains-serve-the-military-in-which-they-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/chaplains-serve-the-military-in-which-they-served\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains Serve the Military, in which They Served"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;On Faith&#8221; section contains an article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/chaplains-hear-call-to-serve-god-while-serving-country\/2012\/02\/06\/gIQA9lxmuQ_story.html\">Chaplains hear call to serve God while serving country<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 The article covers the stories of several chaplains in the US military who were first serving as regular sailors or soldiers until they <!--more-->&#8220;heard the call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/us-military-celebrates-ramadan-religious-freedom\/\">Asif Balbale<\/a>, former sailor, now <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/chaplain-brings-religious-perspective-to-trainees\/\">Navy Islamic Chaplain<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joseph Odell, West Point grad, now Christian Army Chaplain<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Kleinman, Naval Academy grad, now Navy Jewish Chaplain<\/li>\n<li>Brian Wood, former enlisted airmen, in training to be Air Force Chaplain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With their sacrificial lifestyle, selfless service of others, and the submission to a higher purpose, the military and the ministry are, in many respects, parallel professions &#8212; or &#8220;callings.&#8221;\u00a0 It is not unusual, then, to see people cross from one to the other, or combine the two altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8216;s &#8220;On Faith&#8221; section contains an article entitled &#8220;Chaplains hear call to serve God while serving country.&#8221;\u00a0 The article covers the stories of several chaplains in the US military who were first serving as regular sailors or soldiers until they<\/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":[2909,88,2194,2910,5284,96,44,39,2908,2,1496,36,10,171,473,101],"class_list":["post-16226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-aaron-kleinman","tag-army","tag-asif-balbale","tag-brian-wood","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-joseph-odell","tag-military","tag-naval-academy","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-usna","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226","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=16226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}