Unless you have a family member who is in the service, or live in a community near a base, it is all too easy to ignore the human cost and trauma of war.

It is a great day for America: The Department of Defense has recently established the first Hindu Military Chaplain program in American history.

Memorial Day has special significance for all of us, and it has significant meaning for me as a former military chaplain serving in the United States Navy with sailors and Marines.

An atheist chaplain? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? And come to think of it, what does a military chaplain do anyway?

For my first Christmas as the Bishop for the Armed Services caring for clergy of The Episcopal Church, I sensed the need to do something special and memorable to commemorate the annual remembrance of our Savior's birth.