Agents of Peace in Theaters of War: Rethinking the Role of Military Chaplains
Miroslav Volf Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Something new and important is underfoot in the international world of military chaplains—or so it seems to me as an outside observer. As Canadian Forces Chaplain Major S. K. Moore has argued in a recent doctoral dissertation titled Military Chaplains as Agents of Peace (2008), the ministry of reconciliation is beginning to be recognized as a complementary role of deployed chaplains. Traditionally, operational chaplains have had a pastoral and sacramental mandate and (hopefully) prophetic role as well; their ministry has been to attend to broadly understood holy needs of deployed military personnel, often reaching to their families, whether in wartime or in peacetime. Moore has called this the "internal operational mandate" of military chaplains. It's the bread and butter of what they do.
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