{"id":16817,"date":"2012-03-20T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16817"},"modified":"2012-03-19T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T02:50:45","slug":"gen-richardson-on-attacks-on-faith-chapel-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/gen-richardson-on-attacks-on-faith-chapel-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Richardson on Attacks on Faith, Chapel Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Air Force Chief of Chaplain (MajGen) Cecil Richardson recently spoke to the Fairchild AFB National Prayer Luncheon on prayer, where he also noted\u00a0the “relentless attacks on people of faith and traditional values<\/a>” that have recently characterized the public discourse:<\/p>\n

“It’s to pray for ourselves, our community, units, friends, families and leaders,” said the Air Force’s ranking chaplain.<\/p>\n

“It’s also a time to pause and remind ourselves despite the relentless attacks on people of faith and traditional values, we are still one nation under God.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Contrary to some claims that spiritual ministry is confined to the four walls of a chapel, Chaplain Richardson emphasized the broad outreach of the chapel ministry:<\/p>\n

“A chapel-based ministry can be at the tail of a C-17 or in front of a KC-135. There’s been many times I’ve stood on top of a vehicle, declared it a chapel and done and outdoor worship service. Anytime you gather people together to worship, you can declare it a chapel and that’s a chapel base ministry.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chaplain Richardson noted that men and women who join the US military do not abdicate their religious rights to practice their faith, merely because they have donned the uniform:<\/p>\n

“It’s important people know when they join the military, they don’t give up their rights as Americans,” Richardson said. “The chaplain corps exists to make sure when Americans join the military, they don’t lose their opportunity to freely practice their faith.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chaplains within the US military work to protect the religious liberties of all <\/em>US troops, regardless of their faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Air Force Chief of Chaplain (MajGen) Cecil Richardson recently spoke to the Fairchild AFB National Prayer Luncheon on prayer, where he also noted\u00a0the “relentless attacks on people of faith and traditional values” that have recently characterized the public discourse: “It’s to pray for ourselves, our community, units, friends, families and leaders,” said the Air Force’s ranking chaplain. “It’s also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,832,506,38,5284,96,82,3061,2058,2,11,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-16817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-c-17","tag-cecil-richardson","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-fairchild","tag-kc-135","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817","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=16817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}