Sentences with phrase «military chaplain»

They are especially compelling when the world beyond them, its politics and accumulating troubles (Toller is a former military chaplain), render them powerless and force them to action.

He stars as Toller, a former military chaplain who's been appointed the minister of a small, historical church on the cusp of its historic reconsecration.

A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son.

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.

Toller, you see, was a former military chaplain who encouraged his son to enlist only to see him return home from the Middle East in a body bag.

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 is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.

Ethan Hawke stars as Ernst Toller, a former military chaplain turned small - town minister at a chapel operated by a larger mega-church.

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.

SYNOPSIS: A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son.

Hawke stars as a former military chaplain grieving over the death of his son, but the story takes a number of surprising turns and many critics have praised Schrader's steady, subtle direction.

First Reformed stars Ethan Hawke as a former military chaplain grieving the death of his son.

He is a former military chaplain ministering to a tiny congregation in upstate New York, and he can't get past the deep grief and spiritual isolation caused by the ill - fated death of his enlisted son.

But Ethan Hawke has become such a supple actor that he takes the role of Ernst Toller, a former military chaplain who has found refuge in his life as a small - town reverend, and makes it convincing.

We soon learn what's behind his agonized countenance: He was a happily married military chaplain when he encouraged his soldier son to go to Iraq.

We wouldn't accept a military chaplain who said «Muslims are going to hell» and wouldn't serve them.

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.

I will never forget that a military chaplain blatantly lied about Pat Tillman's final moments, trying to vilify a heroic man because he happened to be an atheist.

As one of the civilian therapists, the kindly Father Marc, a retired military chaplain and a Roman Catholic priest, told me, the patients mainly heal each other.

One area to seriously consider, and which will still use your pastoral experience and seminary education, is in becoming a prison, hospital, or military chaplain.

Don't even pretend like you know something about Christianity until you've walked a mile in the shoes of a Christian missionary, a Christian pastor, a military chaplain, a christian volunteer at a homeless shelter, etc..

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.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has since recalled some Defense Department workers, but civilian military chaplains were excluded.

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.

Even today an occasional church leader or group will declare that military chaplains are creatures of the military establishment.

Russell Moore (familiar to FT readers), president - elect of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Kevin Ezell, president of the SBC's North American Mission Board (which endorses all Southern Baptist military chaplains), engage in no fearmongering.

In a statement, Broglio's office said: «Archbishop Broglio and the Archdiocese stand firm in the belief, based on legal precedent, that such a directive from the Army (about not reading the letter) constituted a violation of his Constitutionally - protected right of free speech and the free exercise of religion, as well as those same rights of all military chaplains and their congregants.»

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).

Likewise, I will continue to defend those military chaplains whose self - identity and role definition is so clear that they lend no credence to Niebuhr's remark, «Kings use courtiers and chaplains to add grace to their enterprise.»

All those generals better get off their chump asses and remove military chaplains entirely when they can not keep their lying bigoted mouths shut and their views to themselves.

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.

An important footnote to the debate on torture concerns the work of military chaplains.

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

The military chaplains understand where they are coming from & what they face.

Are military chaplains really asking God if they should participate in an offensive war — an occupation?

Our military Chaplains do not prosthelytize, and must maintain every measure of religious neutrality when counseling others of different faith.

As Congress debates the repeal of the Pentagon's «don't ask, don't tell» policy, military chaplains are doing their own soul - searching.

I agree with all the military chaplains that serve.

When you say you «agree» with «all» the military chaplains, what exactly are you agreeing with them about...?

Earlier this month, Congress removed a controversial provision in a military bill that would have permitted military chaplains to offer sectarian prayer at mandatory nondenominational events.

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

Not exact matches

«Attendees will have an opportunity to respond to the Gospel Evangelistic message, be encouraged by Fort Bragg Chaplains and trained counselors from off post Churches and on post Chapels, and then be offered ongoing Biblical Spiritual Resiliency training at our military chapels and local churches,» the information sheet said.

I've known many Wiccans in the military and none of them have even gone to the Chaplain, by and large they're tired of being preached at.

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.

Beginning with the missionary movement in the early nineteenth century the church began offering ministries to people in special settings or with special problems, including military and hospital chaplains, and service to the disadvantaged in urban, rural, suburban and metropolitan settings.

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.

Besides Dr. Theophilus and his wife, there were the chaplain of the military cantonment and his wife; a retired woman principal of a girls» school, dressed in an immaculate white sari; and some other people associated with the local church.

There are different denominations of chaplains in the military.

They work as pastors, preachers and priests, teachers and scholars, evangelists and missionaries, writers and editors, administrators of denominational, educational, social service and reform agencies, as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and military establishments.