Posted by David on September 2, 2010
It has happened many times, where a fellow UU or a ministerial colleague takes me aside and asks me if this military chaplaincy “thing” is really something I want to do. When I explore it with them, where their anxiety is coming from, it almost always centers around their concern for my safety. Sometimes it [...]
Categories: Military, Ministry
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Tags: Afghanistan, chaplain, Dale Goetz, faith, Military, military chaplain, military chaplaincy, Ministry
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Posted by David on July 7, 2010
I was reading through the stories on Military.com this evening, and came across a story on the young soldier, now facing a court martial, who leaked classified information to Wikileaks.com. The story made me sad in so many ways… sad that this young man felt he had to do this, sad that he felt so [...]
Categories: Interfaith, Military, Ministry, Religious Freedom
| Tags: Dog Tags, dogtags, ID Tags, liberal, liberal faith, Military, military chaplain, military faith, military religious freedom, Ministry, religous freedom, soldier, unitairan, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist, Universalist, UU, UU Military
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Posted by David on June 21, 2010
As I move out of my space of liminality and into the ministries I will carry in the coming year, the expeirence of intentional creative not-knowing has been incredible.
Categories: Military, Ministry, Turnings
| Tags: David Pyle, liberal faith, Military, military chaplain, Ministry, mission, religion, unitairan, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist, Universalism, UU, UU Military
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Posted by David on June 19, 2010
The committment to remain open on the issues before this General assembly, and why I really go to GA…
Categories: General Assembly, Military, Ministry, Social Engagement, UU Movement
| Tags: activism, Christian, faith, GA, General Assembly, justice, liberal, Military, military chaplain, Ministry, peacemaking, Statement of Conscience, unitairan, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist, Universalist, UU, UU Military
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Posted by David on May 30, 2010
Did our nation make the shift from Decoration Day as a National Day of Mourning to the Celebration of Memorial Day to protect us from seeing the true costs of war?
Categories: Military, Ministry, Patriotism, Prophetic Voice, Social Engagement
| Tags: decoration day, faith, justice, liberal faith, memoral day, memorial day sermon, Military, military chaplain, Prophetic Voice, sermon, soldier, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist, UU Military, Veteran's Day, war
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Posted by David on May 23, 2010
Why I may not be becoming an Army Chaplain anytime soon, and thanks to all of the friends and collegues who have sent us support over the last week or so.
Categories: Military, Ministry, Patriotism, Turnings
| Tags: justice, Military, military chaplain, Ministry, mission, soldier, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalism, Universalist, UU Military
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Posted by David on March 21, 2010
This weekend I am writing several of the essays to move me toward becoming a U.S. Army Chaplain. Yesterday I posted my essay to the U.S. Army. Today I post the draft of my essay to the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. I look forward to the thoughts and feedback of any of the denziens of the Celestial Lands [...]
Categories: Military, Ministry, Social Engagement, Turnings, UU Movement, theology
| Tags: committee on military ministry, Military, military chaplain, Ministry, Unitairan Universalist, Unitarian, Universalist, UU, UU military chaplain, UUA
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Posted by David on March 21, 2010
I am currently putting together my packet to accession as a U.S. Army Chaplain, and part of that packet is a 1-page essay titled “Why I want to be a U.S. Army Chaplain”. Now, the regular denziens of the Celestial Lands can probably guess that what has been difficult has been getting it down to 1 double spaced [...]
Categories: Military, Ministry, Turnings
| Tags: accessioning, Army, Army Chaplain, chaplain accession, chaplain candidate, chaplain essay, Military, military chaplain, Why I want to be an Army chaplain
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Posted by David on January 24, 2010
I do not often post my sermons directly to the Blog here at Celestial Lands, but something is moving me to share this one here this morning. Perhaps because I have been so disappointed and depressed over some recent events in American Political History that this sermon, written a year ago, is also preaching to me [...]
Categories: History, Ministry, Prophetic Voice, politics
| Tags: Charles Eddis, civil rights, David Pyle, evanston, Homer Jack, intelligence, justice, let us dare, Martin Luther King, Military, military intelligence, open housing, preach, preaching, pulpit, race, racial, sermon, spy on Americans, Unitarian, Unitarian Church of Evanston, Unitarian Universalist, Universalist
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Posted by David on September 12, 2009
Over the last several years, I have had the privilege to be with several Unitarian Universalist families as they struggled through the complex emotions that arise around a loved one deciding to join the military. Recently, some ministers have even referred such families to me, and I thought it would be useful to write a [...]
Categories: Care of the Soul, Military, Ministry, Patriotism, Turnings, UU Movement
| Tags: child joining military, Military, military child, pacifist parents, recruiter, stop recruiter, Unitarian, Universalist, UU, UU Military, UU youth military
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