Evangelicals Numbers Increasing In Military Chaplaincy

The New York Times this morning carries a very interesting front-page article on the growing number of evangelicals in the Chaplain Corps of the armed forces. Focusing particularly on the Air Force, it points out that this increase is accompanied by decreases in Catholic and mainline Protestant chaplains. The article explores at length the tension between evangelicals' obligation to share the Gospels, and military chaplains' duty to serve personnel of all faiths. The full article is worth a read.