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...Graham had known so many of the first families for so many years that it was natural for him to evolve into a kind of informal White House Chaplain. Any man who regularly drew crowds in the hundreds of thousands, night after night in city after city, had come to learn painfully the price of celebrity. He could talk to them about their kids, their marriages, their doubts and questions, and the Presidents knew they wouldn't read about it in the Washington Post the next day. Churches can be highly political places; Graham was the pastor who made house...
...call came in the middle of the night: Captains, lieutenants, the camp chaplain, all the senior officers were summoned to a meeting with Colonel Mike Howard, commander of forward operating base Naray, in Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan. Captain Todd Polk, stumbling from his tent in the bitter mountain cold, knew it was going to be bad news. "I thought it was going to be a major problem," he says. "Maybe another 9/11." While the subject of the meeting was nothing like the 2001 terrorist attacks, for the soldiers of the 3rd Squadron, 71st Calvary unit of the 10th Mountain Division...
...hostile combat zone has a corrosive effect on discipline. Three more months may not seem that long to a civilian, but to a soldier already on the ground, it's another 90 days in which a lot could go wrong. "It's like running a race," says Chaplain Doug Weaver, of the 3-71. "The longer it is, the more people fall...
...with bright eyes and wispy hair tells a story. R. Baldwin Lloyd came to Virginia Tech as a chaplain 50 years ago and never left. He was part of a lecture audience on campus the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. A cheer went up when the audience heard the news. Later a near riot erupted when Virginia Tech's few black students lowered the flag to half-staff. Since then, "we've opened doors to people from all over the world!" Lloyd marvels. This college town, where black and white, male and female, Puerto Rican, Indian...
...event of the three-day long conference called “The New Humanism” hosted by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. Humanism is a “non-supernatural alternative to traditional religion,” said Gregory M. Epstein, the University’s Humanist Chaplain. Humanism primarily consists of atheists, agnostics and non-religious people. “The main purpose of the conference is to show the Harvard community and the local community that humanism is the philosophy that best represents the billion people around the world [who identify with no religion...