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Live Q&A session with U.S. Army Chaplain Daniel Sparks. 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. (Mountain time) on Saturday, 11 April 2009. Want to know what a day in the life of a chaplain is like? Chaplain Sparks will answer any questions you have about ministry as a battalion chaplain. Join the discussion by typing your question in [...]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (BP)–There’s strong and then there’s Army strong. Nowhere is that more evident than on the front lines of war. My experience embedding with the chaplains of the XVIII Airborne Corps solidified my belief that we have the best of the best serving overseas. After three full days in Baghdad’s International Zone, we made [...]

NASHVILLE, TN – A usually, quiet and timid chaplain assistant answered the call to duty for the 332nd Medical Brigade and delivered powerful words of inspiration as he filled in for the Brigade chaplain on March 22 at the William F. Lyell Army Reserve Center. Spc. Samuel Jacob, chaplain assistant, filled Lt. Col. John Schroeder’s [...]

WASHINGTON (BP)–Wednesday, April 8 has been proclaimed as a day of prayer and fasting for the U.S. Army’s 200,000 deployed soldiers and their families by the Army’s chief of chaplains. Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Douglas L. Carver, a Southern Baptist, said the prayer and fasting proclamation coincides with a 120-day “stand down” and unit training period [...]

FORT DRUM, New York, (BP)–Fine sand and blinding dust swirled across the Iraqi desert, providing cover for U.S. Army soldiers to advance deeper into enemy terrain. The lead Humvee inched cautiously forward. The soldiers on point radioed to a support group behind them — and asked for a chaplain. James White, a Southern Baptist chaplain [...]

WASHINGTON – As one spouse tried to navigate the other across a room and through a minefield of foam toys, the games had begun at the Army’s “Strong Bonds” marriage retreat near Baltimore. “What these workshops do is it helps us to understand that communication is an ongoing process,” Army Cpl. Paul Garzon, a retreat [...]

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – With the sounds of the nearby Atlantic Ocean waves crashing the sandy beaches, more than 50 couples renewed their wedding vows during the finale of a three-day marriage retreat weekend. Sponsored by the 81st Regional Support Command, the Strong Bonds’ Marriage Enrichment Workshop brought 72 Army Reserve Soldiers and their [...]

America’s war on terrorism, which has been ongoing since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has seen many citizens from all walks of life and all professions take up arms as either active-duty military personnel or reservists. The demand for increasing numbers of troops to fight in both Iraq and Afghanistan has meant more and [...]