Chaplain (Colonel) Rich West is the United States Army’s 29th Deputy Chief of Chaplains. He is an ordained Anglican Priest endorsed as an Army chaplain by the Anglican Churches in North America; and ...

U.S. Navy Chaplain Lt. Grant Mayfield leads a prayer in preparation to depart Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, August 2021. (Staff Sgt. Akeel Austin/Marine Corps) As a Navy line officer, I learned ...

Pete Hegseth announced reforms this week in efforts to renew military chaplains’ religious focus. Rank insignia worn by military chaplains will be replaced by their religious insignia. And the ...

U.S. military chaplains will no longer wear their rank insignia, instead displaying insignia that reflects their religious affiliation, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced as part of two major ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. military chaplains will no longer wear rank insignia, instead displaying symbols of their faith. Chaplains will retain their rank, he said in a video ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said military chaplains would no longer display their rank insignia. Instead, they will display religious insignia representing their "divine calling." Hegseth also said ...

More than four years after the Austin Fire Department fired me as a volunteer chaplain, we have reached a settlement and an important recognition of religious freedom. Chief Joel Baker wrote that the ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sent out a video message in December to the military wherein he pledged to root out watered-down religion and New Age philosophy from our military’s Chaplain Corps. The ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday he is overhauling the military’s chaplain corps, which provide religious and spiritual support to members of the armed forces and their families, saying he ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military’s chaplain corps, with a plan to simplify a system that he said has become too focused on “new age” concepts.

A 2023 law — Senate Bill 763 — required all Texas school districts to vote on whether to employ chaplains or create a volunteer chaplain program to provide student support services, much like a school ...