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.
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.
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.
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 wouldn't accept
a military chaplain who said «Muslims are going to hell» and wouldn't serve them.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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..
In the loneliness of
military camps, in the terror of battle, in the emptiness of loss, you
who are
chaplains bear witness to the presence, the sacramentally Real Presence, of «the one
who fills all things in every way.»
To
chaplains who work in Army chapels around the world, the tolerance and openness represent the support and camaraderie of
military culture.
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.
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.
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.
Chaplains are religious professionals
who work at various organizations such as hospitals,
military, air force or jail facilities in order to offer pastoral care to a definite group of individuals.
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Chaplains are religious professionals
who work at various organizations such as hospitals,
military, air force or jail facilities in order to offer pastoral care to a definite group of individuals.