Word: chaplain
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Currently reading: David Quammen, Monster of God; Richard Dawkins, The Devil’s Chaplain...
...according to his coach. A high school teammate recalls his wiry, 100-lb. friend as "well-mannered, disciplined and studious." Yee earned a ticket to West Point, from which he graduated in 1990. Later, after he rebelled against his Lutheran upbringing, converted to Islam and became a Muslim chaplain, he told anyone who would listen that his was a religion of peace. He lived quietly with his wife and young daughter in a middle-class apartment complex in Olympia, Wash. To the military, he was the ideal guy to minister to the hardened Muslim inmates at Gitmo...
...Joseph I. Collins, who served Harvard as a pastor and chaplain in the late ’60s and remained a dynamic figure in Catholic life in Boston and Cambridge well into retirement, died Tuesday...
Collins served as a chaplain in the Army’s 89th Division during World War II, and delivered a sermon during the Battle of the Bulge shortly after his unit arrived in Europe...
Undergraduate Chaplain Jacqueline Landry, who worked closely with Brennan during his time in Cambridge, said she was surprised to hear of his imminent departure...