{"id":6096,"date":"2010-06-29T00:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T06:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2010-06-24T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T06:10:13","slug":"chief-of-chaplains-highlights-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/chief-of-chaplains-highlights-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Chaplains Highlights Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (MajGen) Douglas Carver, the Army&#8217;s chief of chaplains, recently attended the Southern Baptist Convention chaplain&#8217;s luncheon in Florida.\u00a0 He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=33193&amp;ref=BPNews-RSSFeed0621\">noted the difficulties of the military life<\/a> as a whole &#8212; with high deployments, challenges to marriage, rising suicide rates, etc &#8212; and also the challenges to the Chaplaincy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We chaplains must persevere,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our faith is being tested and tried. These are the days when spiritual leaders &#8212; like our chaplains &#8212; must stand the test, press on, be reliable, be authentic, be men and women of integrity and maintain spiritual stamina.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (MajGen) Douglas Carver, the Army&#8217;s chief of chaplains, recently attended the Southern Baptist Convention chaplain&#8217;s luncheon in Florida.\u00a0 He noted the difficulties of the military life as a whole &#8212; with high deployments, challenges to marriage, rising suicide rates, etc &#8212; and also the challenges to the Chaplaincy: &#8220;We chaplains must persevere,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our faith is being tested [&#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":[5284,4,667,2,10],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-douglas-carver","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","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=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}