Ten Steps to Success

My dad was a Sailor during WWII. After the war, he went to college and seminary while pastoring a church. He became a Navy chaplain when I was three months old and retired when I was in college. What this means is I had a pretty good idea what being a military chaplain would be …

Breaking Barriers

"Interestingly, although the chaplain has to be an ordained representative of an acknowledged faith group, the Chaplain Assistant does not have to be religious at all. We've worked with all kinds of Chaplain Assistants: religious and non-religious, Christian and non-Christian, ministry-minded and non-ministry-minded, personable and stand-offish, good and bad, male and female." ~ Military Ministry: …

Unexpected Partners

โ€œMinistry can take many shapes. Some chaplains work in a chapel environment. Some chaplains never preach from behind a pulpit. They might serve communion from the tailgate of a Hummer or a truckโ€ฆ.โ€ ~ Military Ministry: Chaplains in the Twenty-First Century (page 187) There hadnโ€™t been a chaplain at the small FOB during the three years …