{"id":6359,"date":"2010-07-19T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2010-07-18T23:17:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T05:17:41","slug":"chaplains-skills-more-useful-than-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/chaplains-skills-more-useful-than-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain&#8217;s Skills &#8220;More Useful than a Weapon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army Chaplain (Capt.) James B. Russell has a unique perspective on the Chaplaincy.\u00a0 Once a nurse, now a Chaplain, Russell now serves in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/07\/09\/42043-i-am-here-to-help-relieve-peoples-suffering\/\">similar but changed role<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I could deal with people&#8217;s pain as a nurse, but as a chaplain, I can enter into people&#8217;s suffering.&#8221;\u00a0 Russell says the best part of being a chaplain now is the opportunity to speak to so many people. &#8220;Just to sit and be with someone is a gift from God&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Regardless of the conversation&#8217;s topic, the chaplain says he is not there to preach or convert people. &#8220;About 90 percent of the time, I am not even talking about religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Command Sgt Major of the battalion in Afghanistan has an interesting take on the Chaplain&#8217;s presence in the unit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the chaplain&#8217;s skills are more useful than a weapon, said Army Command Sgt. Maj. Carl Adams&#8230;&#8221;He is like the walking physical God of the unit.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Chaplain (Capt.) James B. Russell has a unique perspective on the Chaplaincy.\u00a0 Once a nurse, now a Chaplain, Russell now serves in a similar but changed role. &#8220;I could deal with people&#8217;s pain as a nurse, but as a chaplain, I can enter into people&#8217;s suffering.&#8221;\u00a0 Russell says the best part of being a chaplain now is the opportunity [&#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":[58,763,5284,762,761,2,10],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-carl-adams","tag-chaplain","tag-command-sergeant-major","tag-james-russell","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","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=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}