{"id":29466,"date":"2014-07-03T00:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T03:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29466"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:24:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:24:40","slug":"the-need-for-christian-military-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/the-need-for-christian-military-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need for Christian Military Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David Gushee is a professor at Mercer University and recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2014\/06\/25\/3964511\/christian-ethicist-america-should.html?sp=\/99\/106\/\">spoke on his contributions<\/a> to a report entitled \u201cComing to Terms with Torture: Truth, Accountability, and Renunciation.&#8221; His emphasis was the treatment of detainees, and his call for an American apology headlined the article.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dr. Gushee&#8217;s statement about how he became involved in the issue should be enlightening for those who hold a Christian faith and commitment to the US military:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Abu Ghraib photos came out in 2004, and a lot of evangelical Christians are in the military, and Christianity Today was receiving requests <!--more-->for some help in this from soldiers and intelligence people who were having moral concerns about what they were hearing about or what they were being asked to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christians in the military often want advice and mentoring on how to integrate their faith and their profession &#8212; especially when the two appear to clash.<\/p>\n<p>Given the number of Christian ministries to the military, it is disappointing that brothers and sisters were relegated to a magazine in their quest for spiritual guidance.<\/p>\n<p>But if they don&#8217;t know where else to get it&#8230;<\/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>Dr. David Gushee is a professor at Mercer University and recently spoke on his contributions to a report entitled \u201cComing to Terms with Torture: Truth, Accountability, and Renunciation.&#8221; His emphasis was the treatment of detainees, and his call for an American apology headlined the article. However, Dr. Gushee&#8217;s statement about how he became involved in the issue should be enlightening [&#8230;]<\/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":[96,4824,4825,2,10,171,4826],"class_list":["post-29466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-david-gushee","tag-mercer-university","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29466","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=29466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}