{"id":1835,"date":"2009-11-10T00:35:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:19:05","slug":"uss-new-york-and-its-chapel-commissioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/10\/uss-new-york-and-its-chapel-commissioned\/","title":{"rendered":"USS New York, and its Chapel, Commissioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USS <em>New York<\/em> was recently commissioned for sea service in its namesake state.\u00a0 It is famous for the fact that seven and a\u00a0half\u00a0tons of steel from the World Trade Center were used in its bow.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&amp;b=5259669&amp;ct=7654773\">United Methodist news source<\/a>, the ship&#8217;s\u00a0Navy Chaplain,\u00a0Chaplain (LtCdr) Laura Bender,\u00a0requested that a few more pounds of that steel be used to create a Christian cross, Jewish Star of David, and Islamic crescent to be used in the ship&#8217;s chapel.\u00a0 The symbols were\u00a0a gift from the World Trade Center Tribute Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/c.lwL4KnN1LtH\/b.1862943\/k.89D8\/Photo_Gallery\/siteapps\/tools\/PhotoDetail.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&amp;b=1862943&amp;p={5E6C5E05-5908-424E-9FB5-3CC6266E048B}&amp;st=DESC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/nychap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the Chaplain for coming up with a unique way to help her Sailors and Marines integrate the faith of their soul with the soul of their ship, regardless of their religion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">First noted by <a href=\"http:\/\/mitchlewis.net\/blog\/observations\/commissioning-uss-new-york\/\">Mitch Lewis<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USS New York was recently commissioned for sea service in its namesake state.\u00a0 It is famous for the fact that seven and a\u00a0half\u00a0tons of steel from the World Trade Center were used in its bow. According to a United Methodist news source, the ship&#8217;s\u00a0Navy Chaplain,\u00a0Chaplain (LtCdr) Laura Bender,\u00a0requested that a few more pounds of that steel be used to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4,44,39,2,36,17,10],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","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=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}