{"id":28700,"date":"2014-03-27T00:45:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28700"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:03:51","slug":"us-chaplain-serves-from-faith-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/us-chaplain-serves-from-faith-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US Chaplain Serves from Faith in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/purim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"230\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US military personnel celebrate Purim in Afghanistan (US Army photo).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A religious studies student inspired by the role of the military in Israeli culture would eventually become a rabbi in the US military. US Army Chaplain (Capt) Heather Borshof appreciates the fact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/122426\/teacher-more-than-faith\">she can bring her faith to her profession<\/a>, and to her interactions with others:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne of the things I love about the military is that it\u2019s not your typical congregation where you mostly work with people of your same faith,\u201d <!--more-->added Borshof. \u201cI get to work with everyone. I believe very strongly in not pushing ones faith or any faith onto somebody. When people come to me and ask questions, I will try to answers them or give them something from my perspective. I might say, \u201cHey, this is how I see things and you don\u2019t necessarily have to see things this way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is an excellent description of the role of chaplains in the US military. They serve all &#8212; but they serve all <em>from their faith<\/em>. They can serve without compromising their faith or affirming things with which they disagree. That is the beauty of the military chaplaincy &#8212; and the value of religious freedom in the US military.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/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-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A religious studies student inspired by the role of the military in Israeli culture would eventually become a rabbi in the US military. US Army Chaplain (Capt) Heather Borshof appreciates the fact she can bring her faith to her profession, and to her interactions with others: \u201cOne of the things I love about the military is that it\u2019s not your [&#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":[58,38,5284,1442,39,2,4700,10,171],"class_list":["post-28700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-heather-borshof","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-purim","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28700","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=28700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}