{"id":23716,"date":"2013-07-05T01:48:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T04:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23716"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:18:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:18:59","slug":"military-chaplains-responsible-for-free-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/military-chaplains-responsible-for-free-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Chaplains Responsible for Free Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A commentary by US Air Force Chaplain (Capt) Keith Beckwith takes a firm stand on the chaplain&#8217;s role in the US military:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A chaplain\u2019s ultimate responsibility is to provide for the free exercise of religion, including those who express a specific religion and those who express no religion at all.<\/p>\n<p>From my perspective, I am a chaplain to all, a pastor <!--more-->to some.<\/p>\n<p>I am not allowed to pick and choose whom I will serve based on a service member\u2019s religious affiliation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But maybe that\u2019s what makes the military so unique. It\u2019s the only place I know where my ministry resource cabinet needs to contain the Holy Bible, the Tanakh, the Koran and Tripitaka.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernminn.com\/northfield_news\/opinion\/guest_columns\/article_f733dbf5-0ab4-5c17-9994-713806f0c46b.html\">well-written piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commentary by US Air Force Chaplain (Capt) Keith Beckwith takes a firm stand on the chaplain&#8217;s role in the US military: A chaplain\u2019s ultimate responsibility is to provide for the free exercise of religion, including those who express a specific religion and those who express no religion at all. From my perspective, I am a chaplain to all, a [&#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":[134,23,5284,82,4098,590,591,10,171,4099,4100],"class_list":["post-23716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-air-force","tag-bible","tag-chaplain","tag-constitution","tag-keith-beckwith","tag-koran","tag-quran","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tanakh","tag-tripitaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23716","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=23716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}