Abstract
No office in America is so delicately balanced between church and state as that of the military chaplain. On one hand, the chaplain wears the uniform of his service. He is answerable to his commander in war and peace. As a defender of the U.S. Constitution, he is a partisan for a particular City of Man. On the other hand, he is the designated spokesman for the City of God in the nation‘s Armed Forces. He is the ordained representative of a religious tradition, accountable above all to the Almighty. How could such a phenomenon have gotten past the Founding Fathers, and more recently, the American Civil Liberties Union? This essay provides four reasons that it is not only possible, but necessary, for the United States to employ military chaplains.
Recommended Citation
Zieger, Hans
(2009)
"Why Does the U.S. Military Have Chaplains?,"
Pepperdine Policy Review: Vol. 2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/ppr/vol2/iss1/4
