At once sensitive and outrageous, minimalist and grotesque, Paul Schrader's dual homage to Diary Of A Country Priest and Winter Light (with a bit of his classic script for Taxi Driver thrown in for good measure) stars Ethan Hawke as Rev. Toller, a depressed, alcoholic former military chaplain who tends to a nearly abandoned old abolitionist church in upstate New York, convinced that his true calling is an «all - consuming knowledge of the emptiness of all things.» (film.avclub.com)
SCHRADER: He is a former military chaplain who came from a line of ministers in a line of patriotic soldiers, and he had, against his wife's desires, kind of convinced his son to enter the military whereupon his son was killed in Iraq and whereupon his wife left him and whereupon he quit the military and was lost. (npr.org)
They claim that those whose faith traditions disapprove of homosexuality will no longer be able to serve as military chaplains if we permit open service. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)