Sentences with phrase «military chaplains»

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.»

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.

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.

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

I lost a lot of respect for military chaplains when I was deployed and watched a chaplain at my base actively try to convert a Muslim to Christianity despite the fact she told him she wasn't interested!

The funding for military chaplains needs to be cut, post haste.

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.

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 is a dismal, confused film about a middle - aged former military chaplain turned preacher.

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

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.

Washington (CNN)- Ten days after the military dumped its «don't ask, don't tell» policy on gays and lesbians, the Pentagon has issued new rules allowing military chaplains to perform same - sex marriages, but only if allowed by law and the chaplain's beliefs.

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.

The last straw for Weinstein was the air force chaplain code of ethics, developed by the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces, a private organization that supplies and accredits military chaplains.

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).

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.

CNN: Contraception controvery ensnares military chaplains The still - lingering controversy over the Obama administration's mandate about health insurance coverage that includes contraception spread to American Army posts all over the world before the matter was settled.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ethan Hawke plays the Rev. Toller, a divorced military chaplain and grieving father, pickling himself in booze over the son he lost in Iraq, while trying to provide pastoral counseling to a troubled parishioner.

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.

Ethan Hawke brings a powerful sense of inner turmoil to the role of Reverend Ernst Toller, a former military chaplain who now leads a tiny congregation at a Dutch Reformed church in upstate New York.

... as military chaplains, we routinely work with service members whose faith traditions and belief systems are different from ours.

All of the retreats and courses are conducted by military chaplains (although none of the programming is religious) and are held in a relaxing atmosphere such as a hotel or resort.

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

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

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.

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..

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.

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

The latest two - paragraph memo, from Under Secretary of Defense Clifford Stanley, carefully stops short of fully embracing the idea of same - sex marriage, saying that «a military chaplain's participation in a private ceremony does not constitute an endorsement of the ceremony by DoD» (the Department of Defense).

«A military chaplain may participate in or officiate any private ceremony, whether on or off a military installation, provided that the ceremony is not prohibited by applicable state and local law,» a memo released Friday says.

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.»

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.»

A military Chaplain's job is to provide pastoral care regardless of their, or their soldiers», religious affiliation.

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.

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.

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

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

If you're a «conflicted» military chaplain... you should leave the military.

I agree with all the military chaplains that serve.

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 think the military chaplains are supposed to be non-denominational.

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

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