{"id":43587,"date":"2018-08-27T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T03:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43587"},"modified":"2018-08-27T01:32:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T04:32:31","slug":"site-highlights-chaplain-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/27\/site-highlights-chaplain-john-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Highlights “Chaplain” John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chaplain Kit, a website<\/a> that bills itself as an “online chaplain’s museum,” memorialized John McCain this weekend by noting he was once “chaplain” John McCain<\/a> –while he was a prisoner of war:<\/p>\n

While not officially a chaplain, John McCain was elected one by the group of POWs who shared a cellblock with him late in the Vietnam War. McCain wasn\u2019t chosen as chaplain \u201c\u2026because the senior ranking officer thought [he] was imbued with any particular extra brand of religion, but because [he] knew all of the words of the Apostles\u2019 Creed and the Nicene Creed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article includes an excerpt from McCain’s book, Faith of My Fathers<\/em><\/a>, on a Christmas service held during his captivity: <\/p>\n

Between each hymn, I read a portion of the story of Christ\u2019s birth from the pages I had copied…<\/p>\n

We gave prayers of thanks for the Christ child, for our families and homes, for our country…Every now and then we glanced up at the windows to see if [the guards] were watching us…But when I looked up at the bars that evening, I wished they had been looking in. I wanted them to see us — faithful, joyful, and triumphant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Purely for context, the site also\u00a0references a 2007 article<\/a> from the Christian Science Monitor which includes the background that:<\/p>\n

Undergirding McCain’s hard-charging image there lies a deep faith in God that he credits with getting him through his toughest moments as a prisoner of war \u2013 and which he still relies on.<\/p>\n

During his imprisonment in Hanoi, “there were times when I didn’t pray for one more day or one more hour, but I prayed for one more minute,” he says. “So I have very little doubt that it was reliance on someone stronger than me that not only got me through, but got me through honorably.”<\/p>\n

McCain says he is not “born again” and has not been baptized. He says he is “just a Christian,” who for many years has been attending the North Phoenix Baptist Church in Arizona with his family…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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