{"id":8468,"date":"2010-12-16T00:20:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T05:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2010-12-13T03:29:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T08:29:51","slug":"new-role-for-military-chaplains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/new-role-for-military-chaplains\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New Role&#8221; For Military Chaplains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/life\/Military+guns+possible+role+chaplains\/3943237\/story.html\">Canadian article<\/a> notes the suggestion that military Chaplains might have a &#8220;new role&#8221; in future conflicts, directly contributing to the emergence of peace by engaging religious leaders in the AOR.<\/p>\n<p>While the article speaks collectively of the &#8220;Canadian and US military&#8221; forces, the suggested &#8220;new&#8221; role for Chaplains has been an &#8220;old&#8221; one for some time in the US.\u00a0 US military Chaplains have been engaging local leaders in <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/chaplains-support-the-fight-in-afghanistan\/\">Afghanistan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/chaplains-engage-locals-in-iraq\/\">Iraq<\/a>\u00a0for years.<\/p>\n<p>Some have dismissed the value of military Chaplains out of hand.\u00a0 They fail to fully realize the extent of the impact of Chaplains on <em>all<\/em> aspects of the military&#8217;s role, including the achievement of victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian article notes the suggestion that military Chaplains might have a &#8220;new role&#8221; in future conflicts, directly contributing to the emergence of peace by engaging religious leaders in the AOR. While the article speaks collectively of the &#8220;Canadian and US military&#8221; forces, the suggested &#8220;new&#8221; role for Chaplains has been an &#8220;old&#8221; one for some time in the US.\u00a0 [&#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":[58,115,5284,52,2],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-canada","tag-chaplain","tag-iraq","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","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=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}