Preaching from the Cockpit
A chaplain preaches a sermon during the Great War, using an aircraft cockpit as a pulpit.
Can you identify the aircraft? Hint: This picture comes from the National Library of Scotland.
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Tag Archives: world war 1
No Atheists on Everest? Man vs Wild Waterproof Military Bible
In a fascinating article from earlier this year, Bear Grylls — of “Man vs Wild” fame — has endorsed a waterproof Bible that will be issued to new military recruits:
The New Zealand Defence Force is issuing new recruits with waterproof Bibles, endorsed by TV adventurer Bear Grylls, in a worldwide military first.
The act of presenting military personnel with Bibles Read more
Australians Rebuff Change to “Known Unto God”
It seems atheist Jason Torpy has an Australian ideological doppleganger.
Reports from Australia indicate the commission in charge of the Australian War Memorial had quietly planned to remove the phrase “known unto God” from the tomb of their unknown soldier:
The sandstone war memorial opened in 1941 to commemorate Australians killed in World War I and is among Canberra’s most popular tourist attractions.
[Memorial director Brendan Nelson] had proposed replacing the phrase “known unto God,” attributed to British writer Rudyard Kipling, with the inscription: “We do not know this Australian’s name, we never will.”
While some complained it was an intentional effort to “de-Christianize” Read more
Mojave Cross Case Settled, Cross will Stand
In April 2010, the US Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that claimed a transfer of National Park Service land in the Mojave National Preserve — upon which stood a cross — was an end-run around the US Constitution.
In January 2011, the VFW sued the government for failing to abide by that decision and allowing the cross to stand. In fact, while the case was ongoing the cross was stolen; when a replacement appeared, the government took it down.
Now it appears the case is done:
A federal judge has approved Read more
Chaplain in Afghanistan Lives a Hollywood Movie Script
The Baptist Press says US Air Force Chaplain (Capt) Kevin Humphrey’s report back to his sending agency
reads like the script of a Hollywood blockbuster.
Chaplain Humphrey is currently deployed to Kandahar and has been nearly constantly busy with rocket attacks, attending to the wounded, and serving the spiritual needs of all on the base, including US, British, Canadian, Pakistani, and others.
With challenges come opportunities: Read more
Military Chaplain, Killed in WWI, Receives Virginia’s Highest Medal
US Army Chaplain (1stLt) Thomas McNeill Bulla was serving in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France in October 1918. He was struck by enemy fire while helping tend to wounded Soldiers, evacuated to a field hospital, and died two days later. The State of Virginia is awarding him the state’s highest honor:
Bulla never received any recognition by the Army Read more
Group Seeks to add Monument to Arlington’s Chaplains Hill
Three monuments stand on Arlington National Cemetery’s Chaplains Hill (text).
The oldest, standing in the center and installed in 1926, memorializes by name the 23 Chaplains who lost their lives in “the World War.”
To its left, the second monument, installed in 1989, memorializes by name the Catholic Chaplains who lost their lives in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
The final monument, raised in 1981, memorializes by name the 134 Protestant Chaplains who lost their lives in World Wars I and II.
The absence of a monument to the 13 Jewish Chaplains Read more
Latest Mojave Cross Mysteries
Update: The recently erected cross at the Mojave site has been removed, according to local sites.
Just a week after it was stolen, and a few days after a huge reward was offered, the World War I memorial in the Mojave National Preserve in southern California may have been returned…maybe.
The caretakers for the site had already built a replacement, but had said they wouldn’t erect it without permission from the government, because to do so would have made them as bad as those who stole it: Read more