Sentences with phrase «for military chaplains»

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The briefing, taught for nearly 20 years by military chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, is intended to train Air Force personnel to consider the ethics and morality of launching nuclear weapons - the ultimate doomsday machine.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

Never mind that for the life of a nation grounded in religious pluralism, our military and its chaplains have served on behalf of the freedom of all Americans, including those who follow a faith that any individual chaplain might consider blasphemous.

With a subjective interpretation and adjudication of such cases, we need reassurance that such would not restrict the free exercise of religion for our chaplains and military personnel.

Meanwhile, the Kiev Patriarchate — the Moscow Patriarchate's Orthodox competition — sent military chaplains to the front, declared that Putin was under Satan's influence, and lobbied US senators for support, reported the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Do nt become a military chaplain unless you can suspend your personal religious beliefes for the sake of others, follow the rules, administer to everyone, and be a good soilder.

Stop being registrars for state marriages, surrender property tax exemptions, give up the double - dip tax privilege that grants clergy a non-taxable housing allowance while letting them also claim a mortgage deduction, drop military ranks for chaplains in the armed forces.

Pvt. Flamard, to be clear, while military chaplains offer religious services and counseling for those who are religious (and including many different kinds of religious), they also have a duty to provide for the spiritual needs of those who are not religious, and with the same enthusiasm, resources, and services that they provide for religious service members.

The U.S. government pays for on base churches, military chaplains and chaplain assistants.

It's great that our military has chaplains for the religious soldiers to see for spiritual support, but chaplains shouldn't be performing their duties with the entire unit as though our military is a Christian army on a crusade.

For those several people who asked, on air, whether the US had the advice of Muslim religious heads: there are Muslim chaplains aboard with all military groups just as there are Protestant and Catholic ministers, Jewish rabbis, etc..

I personally practice non-violence and see military force as empire... yet I know of like minded peolle who serve in the military as medics and chaplains for example.

Late last month Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley issued a memo which stated that chaplains may officiate the marriage and civil union ceremonies of gay couples in states where it's legal, including those taking place on military installations.

Two first look images have arrived online for writer - director Paul Schrader's upcoming religious thriller First Reformed featuring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried; take a look below... Ex military chaplain TOLLER is tortured by the loss of son he encouraged to enlist, and struggles with his faith.

He finds himself oddly compelled by a radical environmentalist, Michael (Philip Ettinger), starting to fall for the environmentalist's pregnant wife, Mary (Amanda Seyfried), and it's clear that Toller, a former military chaplain, has never really processed the death of his own son, who died in combat in Iraq.

This training is for mental health counseling providers, clergy and military chaplains, coaches, professors and teachers, and students and interns.