Fr. Daniel Sparks, Senior Editor
Traditional Anglican priest and U.S. Army chaplain, recently returned from Iraq.

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Chaplain accused of sex crimes resigns

April 7th, 2008 at 0712 MDT » Comments (0)

Officer won’t face court-martial in alleged assault of male soldier
By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Monday, April 7, 2008
HEIDELBERG, Germany — A V Corps chaplain accused of sex crimes and assault has been allowed to resign his commission rather than face a court-martial.
Capt. Anthony C. Mastromarino was allowed to “resign [...]


A chaplain and his mistress

March 18th, 2007 at 1421 MDT » Comments (6)

An Army chaplain has confessed to adultery and threatening to murder his mistress, according to an Associated Press article.
FORT DRUM, N.Y. - A 10th Mountain Division chaplain was stripped of his rank and sentenced to five months in military prison after pleading guilty to adultery and threatening to kill his mistress when she wanted to [...]


Prayers in Jesus’ name

May 27th, 2006 at 1727 MDT » Comments (7)

I posted the following elsewhere. It offers only a brief introduction of my thoughts on public ceremonial prayer in Jesus’ name by military chaplains.
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At the schoolhouse [Army Chaplain School], my class was told repeatedly not to pray in Jesus’ name. When I was a chaplain candidate, a supervisory chaplain asked me to write [...]


Chaplains and ethics

November 5th, 2005 at 1745 MST » Comments (0)

Earlier today, I was searching for something online and ran accross this article on the JAG Central blog (the original source). I recognized the name of the Army chaplain involved in the matter–in June 2003, I trained with him for a couple of days at Fort Knox.
I searched a little more and came up [...]