Australia may soon lose a beloved component of its public schools – chaplains. An institution in Australian schools, the national school chaplaincy program provided a trusted, caring and affirming presence in school ...
Read More »Pastors hear how Covid affected faith of Kansas City Royals players in 2020
Few things are more relaxing than spring training baseball under the warm Arizona sun. But as the Kansas City Royals learned in the spring of 2020, everything can change in a heartbeat. ...
Read More »C5Alive featured speaker is also Chaplain of the Kansas Senate
Cecil Washington, Jr. will be the featured speaker at the May C5Alive POWER Luncheon. In addition to serving as Pastor in a local church, Washington also serves as Chaplain of the Kansas ...
Read More »Death row inmate sues to have chaplain at execution
Charles L. Burton Jr. doesn’t want to be alone when he dies. The death row inmate hopes a federal court will make sure that does not happen. Burton, who was sentenced in 1992 ...
Read More »Chaplain shares her story serving front lines of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
In the small Eastern Ukrainian suburb of Avdeevka it’s common to hear bombs exploding or nearby gunfire. Seven years after Russia’s invasion began, the casualties still mount. Residents who fled and those ...
Read More »Chiefs’ commitment to faith comes from top down, team chaplain says
The Kansas City Chiefs have more than a prayer of beating the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl. The team chaplain says the organization’s openness to matters of faith makes his ...
Read More »Federal Court upholds chaplain’s effort to block atheist ‘prayers’ in US Congress
A federal appeals court recently delivered a legal victory to House Chaplain Father Patrick Conroy, ruling that he could not be ordered to allow a self-described atheist to offer non-religious prayers to the House ...
Read More »Pastor Fred Hollomon, former Chaplain of the Kansas State Senate, Remembered
Fred Hollomon, a Southern Baptist pastor who served as Senate chaplain in Topeka for over 33 years, died February 13, 2018 at his home in Lawrence after a long battle with Alzheimer’s ...
Read More »Navy draws the line: atheist cannot be a chaplain
The United States Navy has rejected application of atheist to serve as a chaplain. Forty-five House members and 22 Senators sent a letter to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and Admiral John Richardson ...
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