The select bibliography below was cultivated as part of the editorial research process and incorporated into Pacifist to Padre.
General Works
Abercrombie, Clarence L., III. The Military Chaplain. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1977.
Barish, Louis, ed. Rabbis in Uniform: The Story of the American Jewish Military Chaplain. New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1962.
Bergen, Doris L. The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-first Century. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
Bergsma, Cdr H. L. (CHC, USN). The Pioneers: A Monograph on the First Two Black Chaplains in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1981.
Brown, William Young. The Army Chaplain: His Office, Duties, and Responsibilities, and the Means of Aiding Him. Tyler, TX: Spark-light Press, 2012.
The Chaplain as Counselor. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1958.
The Chaplain and Military Morale, ST 16-155. Carlisle Barracks, PA: Army Chaplain School, 1950.
Connelley, Carroll J., and Paolo Tripodi, ed. Aspects of Leadership: Ethics, Law, and Spirituality. Quantico, VA: MCU Press, 2012.
Craugwell, Thomas J. Heroic Catholic Chaplains: Stories of the Brave and Holy Men Who Dodged Bullets While Saving Souls. Gastonia, NC: TAN Books, 2018.
Drazin, Israel, and Cecil B. Currey. For God and Country: The History of a Constitutional Challenge to the Army Chaplaincy. Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, 1995.
Drury, Capt Clifford Merrill (USNR). The History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, vol. 1, 1778–1939. Washington, DC: U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps, 1948.
———. The History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, vol. 2, 1939–1949. Washington, DC: U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps, 1949.
———. United States Navy Chaplains, 1957–1972: Biographical and Service-record Sketches of USN and USNR Chaplains—Volume II of the Series on the History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1974.
———. United States Navy Chaplains, 1953–1957: Biographical and Service-record Sketches of 2,800 USN and USNR Chaplains Including Corrections and Additions to 2,227 Sketches Which Appeared in Volumes III and IV of This Series. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1957.
Elkins, Dov Peretz. God’s Warriors: Dramatic Adventures of Rabbis in Uniform. Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers, 1974.
Frazier, John B. (CHC, USN). The Navy Chaplain’s Manual. Washington, DC: Secretary of the Navy, 1918.
Gilroy, William F. R., and Timothy J. Demy. A Brief Chronology of the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy. Washington, DC: Chaplain Corps, Department of the Navy, 1983.
Hansen, Kim P. Military Chaplains and Religious Diversity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137025166.
Honeywell, Col Roy J. (USA) Chaplains of the United States Army. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 1958.
Hutcheson, Richard G., Jr. The Churches and the Chaplaincy. Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, 1975.
Ingle, Clifford. The Military Chaplain as a Counselor. Kansas City, KS: Central Seminary Press, 1953.
Keller, W. Phillip. Bold under God. Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1973.
Kennedy, Nancy B. Miracles and Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories from Military Chaplains. Abilene, TX: Leafwood Publishers, 2011.
Kibben, Margaret Grun. “Religious Freedom in the Armed Forces.” Military Chaplain 89, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 7–9.
Korn, Bertam W. Centennial of the Jewish Chaplaincy in the United States, 1862–1962. New York: n.p., 1963.
Kroll, Lt C. Douglas (CHC, USNR). A History of Navy Chaplains Serving with the U.S. Coast Guard. Washington, DC: Chaplain Corps, Department of the Navy, 1983.
Lewis, T. L. From Bootcamp to the Battlefield: Training Church Workers for Service. Nashville, TN: Boyd Publications, 1997.
Loveland, Anne C. Change and Conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps since 1945. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014.
Ludwig, Dean C., and Clinton O. Longenecker. “The Bathsheba Syndrome: The Ethical Failure of Successful Leaders.” Journal of Business Ethics 12, no. 4 (1993): 265–73, https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01666530.
Lunze, Stefan. The Protection of Religious Personnel in Armed Conflict. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004.
Martin, Cdr H. Lawrence (CHC, USN), and Lt Timothy J. Demy (CHC, USNR). Sea Padres: Some Chaplains of “the Old Navy.” Washington, DC: Chaplains Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Department of the Navy, 1984.
Martin, Cdr H. Lawrence (CHC, USN), and Lt William F. R. Gilroy (CHC, USNR). The Uniforms of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy. Washington, DC: Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy, 1985.
Navy Chaplains Bulletin. Washington, DC: Chaplains Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Department of the Navy, 1954–.
O’Brien, Thomas R., ed. Blessings from the Battlefield. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 2002.
Patterson, Eric, ed. Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond: Advisement and Leader Engagement in Highly Religious Environments. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Proctor, Pam, and William Proctor. Women in the Pulpit: Is God an Equal Opportunity Employer? New York: Doubleday, 1976.
Ramsay, Nancy J., and Carrie Doehring. Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care: A Resource for Religious Leaders and Professional Caregivers. Saint Louis, MO: Chalice Press, an Imprint of Christian Board of Publication, 2019.
Reagan, Ronald. “Remarks at the Baptist Fundamentalism Annual Convention.” Speech at the District of Columbia Convention Center, Washington, DC, 13 April 1984.
Resnicoff, Arnold E. “Prayers that Hurt: Public Prayer in Interfaith Settings.” Open Siddur Project, 17 February 2019.
Riddle, John, and Bonnie J. Ceban. For God and Country: Four Stories of Courageous Military Chaplains. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour, 2003.
Robinson, Harold L. “Free Exercise Meets the Establishment Clause in Military Service.” Military Chaplain 89, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 16–18.
———. “A Solemn Duty: Citizens’ Responsibilities for the Nation’s Wars and Warriors.” In Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: War and National Security. Edited by Elliott N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 2010.
Stahl, Ronit Y. Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Staudacher, Rosemarian V. Chaplains in Action. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962.
Todd, Andrew, ed. Military Chaplaincy in Contention: Chaplains, Churches and the Morality of Conflict. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
Waring, George J. Chaplain’s Duties and How Best to Accomplish His Work. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1912.
Washburn, Henry Bradford. “The Army Chaplain.” Papers of the American Society of Church History 7 (1895).
Wildhack, William A. “Navy Chaplains at the Crossroads: Navigating the Intersection of Free Speech, Free Exercise, Establishment, and Equal Protection.” Naval Law Review 51 (2005).
Woodbery, Jerry Maddox. “Prophets and Warriors: Military Chaplains, the Advisement of National Strategic Military Leaders, and the Revision of Joint Publication 1-05, ‘Religious Affairs in Joint Operations’.” Dissertation thesis, Wesley Theological Seminary, 2012.
Zumwalt, Adm E. R., Jr. (USN). “Z-gram #116: Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women.” Naval History and Heritage Command, 7 August 1972.
American Revolution–1812
Black, Jeanette D., and William Greene Roelker, eds. A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution: Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown, 1775–1778. Providence: Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, 1949.
Brace, F. R. Brief Sketches of the New Jersey Chaplains in the Continental Army, and in the State Militia, during the War of Independence. Paterson, NJ: Press Printing and Publishing, 1909.
Crowder, Jack Darrell. Chaplains of the Revolutionary War: Black Robed American Warriors. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.
Dickens Jr., William E. Answering the Call: The Story of the U.S. Military Chaplaincy from the Revolution Through the Civil War. Privately published, 1999.
Headley, J. T. The Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution. New York: Charles Scribner, 1864.
———. The Forgotten Heroes of Liberty: The Chaplains and Clergy of the American Revolution. Birmingham, AL: Solid Ground Christian Books, 2005.
McLane, Curren R., ed. American Chaplains of the Revolution. Louisville, KY: National Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1991.
1812–61
Lawson, Kenneth E. Reliable and Religious: U.S. Army Chaplains and the War of 1812. Washington, DC; Department of the Army, 2002.
———. Religion and the U.S. Army Chaplaincy in the Florida Seminole Wars, 1817–1858. Columbia, SC: Eastside Printing, 2006.
Civil War
Armstrong, Warren B. For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Betts, Alexander Davis. The Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, 1861–1864. LaVergne, TN: Kessinger, 2012.
Bineham, Maj Michael L. (USA) “Role of Southern Baptist Chaplains and Missionaries in the Civil War.” Master’s diss., U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2003.
Bradford, J. H. The Chaplains in the Volunteer Army. Aurora, CO: Biographical Center for Research, 2009.
Brinsfield, John Wesley, comp. and ed,. The Spirit Divided: Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains—The Confederacy. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006.
———. Summon Only the Brave!: Commanders, Soldiers, and Chaplains at Gettysburg. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2016.
Brinsfield, John W., William C. Davis, Benedict Maryniak, and James I. Robertson Jr., ed. Faith in the Fight: Civil War Chaplains. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003.
Budd, Richard M. Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military Chaplaincy, 1860–1920. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Cathey, M. Todd. Combat Chaplain: The Life and Civil War Experiences of Rev. James H. McNeilly, Army of Tennessee. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2017.
Conyngham, David Power. Soldiers of the Cross, the Authoritative Text: The Heroism of Catholic Chaplains and Sisters in the American Civil War. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.
Corby, William. Memoirs of Chaplain Life: Three Years with the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac. Edited by Lawrence Frederick Kohl. New York: Fordham University Press, 1992.
Furry, William, ed. The Preacher’s Tale: The Civil War Journal of Rev. Francis Springer, Chaplain, U.S. Army of the Frontier. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001.
Hayes, Patrick J., ed. The Civil War Diary of Rev. James Sheeran, C.Ss.R.: Confederate, Chaplain, and Redemptorist. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2016.
Heagney, Harold J. Chaplain in Gray, Abram Ryan: Poet-Priest of the Confederacy. New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1958.
Humphreys, Charles A. Field, Camp, Hospital and Prison in the Civil War, 1863–1865. Boston, MA: Press of Geo. H. Ellis, 1918.
Jones, J. William. Christ in the Camp or Religion in the Confederate Army. Harrisburg, VA: Sprinkle Publications, 1986.
Miller, Benjamin L. In God’s Presence: Chaplains, Missionaries, and Religious Space during the American Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019.
Pitts, Charles F. Chaplains in Gray: The Confederate Chaplains’ Story. Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1957.
Quintard, C. T. Balm for the Weary and the Wounded. Columbia, SC: Evans & Cogswell Printers, 1864.
Twichell, Joseph Hopkins. The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story. Edited by Peter Messent and Steve Courtney. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Woodworth, Steven E. While God Is Marching On: The Religious World
of Civil War Soldiers. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
1865–1917
Budd, Richard M. Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military Chaplaincy, 1860–1920. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Stover, Earl F. Up from Handymen: The United States Army Chaplaincy, 1865–1920. Forest Grove, OR: University Press of the Pacific, 2004.
World War I
Appelbaum, Peter C. Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War. Chicago, IL: Vallentine Mitchell, 2014.
Duffy, Francis P. Father Duffy’s Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth. New York: George H. Doran, 1919.
Fiennes, Peter. To War with God: The Army Chaplain Who Lost His Faith. New York: Random House, 2011.
Hogan, Martin J. The Shamrock Battalion in the Great War. Edited by James J. Cooke. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
Levinger, Lee J. A Jewish Chaplain in France. New York: Macmillan, 1922.
Shay, Michael E. Sky Pilots: The Yankee Division Chaplains in World War I. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2014.
Schweitzer, Richard. The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt among British and American Great War Soldiers. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
Talbot, Neville S. Religion Behind the Front and After the War. London: Macmillan, 1918.
Waring, George J. United States Catholic Chaplains in the World War: Ordinariate Army and Navy Chaplains. Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2003.
World War II
Bernstein, Philip S. Rabbis at War: The CANRA Story. Waltham, MA: American Jewish Historical Society, 1971.
Carpenter, Alton E., and A. Anne Eiland. Chappie: World War II Diary of a Combat Chaplain. Fountain Hills, AZ: Mead Publishing, 2007.
Cavanaugh, Paul W. “Pro Deo et Patria (For God and Country): The Personal Narrative of an American Catholic Chaplain as a Prisoner of War in Germany.” Unpublished manuscript, Woodstock Theological Library, Georgetown University, 2004.
Crosby, Donald F. Battlefield Chaplains: Catholic Priests in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
Dorsett, Lyle W. Serving God and Country: U.S. Military Chaplains in World War II. New York: Dutton Caliber, a Penguin Books imprint, 2013.
Fighting for America: A Record of the Participation of Jewish Men and Women in the Armed Forces during 1944, 1944 ed. New York: National Jewish Welfare Board, 1944.
Gregg, John A. Of Men and Arms: Chronological Travel Record of Bishop John A. Gregg with Messages of Cheer and Good Will to Negro Soldiers on All War Fronts. Nashville, TN: A. M. E. Sunday School Union Press, 1945.
Grobman, Alex. Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944–1948. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
Guerra, Peter J., and Suzanne Doré Guerra. But He Dies Not: The Life, Faith, and Sacrifice of Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur, Priest, Military Chaplain. Opelousas, LA: Andrepont Printing, 2010.
Hotaling, Kerry. Go Forward into the Storm: An Iwo Jima Journal. Glene-den Beach, OR: Christopher Matthews Publishing, 2016.
Jones Jr., Capt Wilbur D. (USNR). Gyrene: The World War II United States Marine. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 1998.
Keith, Bill. Days of Anguish, Days of Hope: Chaplain Robert Preston Taylor’s Ordeal and Triumph as a POW in World War II. Fort Worth, TX: Scripta Publishing, 1972.
Kirkpatrick, Thomas I. The Love that Endures: Remembering My Mother and My Father, U.S.S. Arizona’s Chaplain at Pearl Harbor. Half Moon Bay, CA: Greenbrier Publications, 2011.
Knapp, George W., and Gayle E. Knapp. A Chaplain’s Duty: Letters Home from a WWII Chaplain. Athens, GA: Deeds Publishing, 2011.
Kurzman, Dan. No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II. New York: Random House, 2005.
Mandel, Lee. Unlikely Warrior: A Pacifist Rabbi’s Journey from the Pulpit to Iwo Jima. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2014.
McWilliams, Tennant. The Chaplain’s Conflict: Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943–1945. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
Moore, Deborah Dash. GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
———. Worshipping Together in Uniform: Christians and Jews in World War II. San Francisco, CA: Swig Judaic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, 2001.
O’Callahan, Joseph T. I Was Chaplain on the Franklin. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2019.
Rabey, Steve. Faith under Fire: Stories of Hope and Courage from World War II. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2002.
Rogers, Capt Edward K. Doughboy Chaplain. Ponca City, OK: Meador Press, 1946.
Roper, Richard S. Brothers of Paul: Activities of Prisoner of War Chaplains in the Philippines during WWII. Odenton, MD: Revere Printing, 2003.
Slomovitz, Albert I. The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Stroop, Russell Cartwright, and Richard Cartwright Austin. Letters from the Pacific: A Combat Chaplain in World War II. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000.
Szymczak, Chester J. When Time Stood Still: The Sinking of the S.S. Dorchester. Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance, 1956.
Thornton, Francis Beauchesne. Sea of Glory: The Magnificent Story of the Four Chaplains. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1953.
Walker, Conrad N. The Leapin’ Deacon: The Soldier’s Chaplain. Austin, TX: Langmarc Publishing, 2004.
Walstad, Clarence E. Pages from a World War II Chaplain’s Diary. CreateSpace, 2015.
Wickersham II, George W. Marine Chaplain, 1943–1946. 7th ed. Bennington, VT: Merriam Press, 2017.
Wukovits, John F. Soldiers of a Different Cloth: Notre Dame Chaplains in World War II. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.
Yost, Israel A. S. Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.
Zimmerman, Leslie F. Chaplain Prisoners of War in the Pacific, 1941–1945. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: USAF Chaplain Service Institute, 1993.
Cold War
Tarr, Herbert. The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen: A Novel. New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1963.
Korean War
Beecher, Earl S. An Army Chaplain from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (in Korea). Las Vegas, NV: TopLink Publishing, 2019.
Caruso, John, and Aaron Elson. Semper Fi, Padre: The Mathew Caruso Story. New Britain, CT: Chi Chi Press, 2015.
Dowe, Ray M. Father Kapaun: The Ordeal of Chaplain Kapaun. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1954.
Griepp, Frank. The Circuit-riding Combat Chaplain: The Chaplain of the Seventh Cavalry in the Korean War. Self-published, 2000.
Maher, William L. A Shepherd in Combat Boots: Chaplain Emil Kapaun of the 1st Cavalry Division. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 2002.
Rosen, Milton J. An American Rabbi in Korea: A Chaplain’s Journey in the Forgotten War. Edited by Stanley R. Rosen. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Schumacher, John W. A Soldier of God Remembers: Memoir Highlights of a Career Army Chaplain. Souderton, PA: Grace Brethren North American Missions, 2000.
Tonne, Arthur. The Story of Chaplain Kapaun: Patriot Priest of the Korean Conflict. Emporia, KS: Didde, 1954.
Wenzl, Roy, and Travis Heying. The Miracle of Father Kapaun: Priest, Soldier and Korean War Hero. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2015.
Wick, Pat, ed. A Saint Among Us: Remembering Father Emil J. Kapaun. Wichita, KS: Father Kapaun Guild, 2005.
Vietnam War
Autry, Jerry. Gun-Totin’ Chaplain: A True Memoir. San Francisco, CA: Airborne Press, 2007.
Bergsma, Cdr Herbert L. (CHC, USN). Chaplains with Marines in Vietnam, 1962–1971. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters Marine Corps, 1985.
Bowers, Curt. Forward Edge of the Battle Area: A Chaplain’s Story. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press, 1987.
Caldwell, J. T. The Chaplain’s Assistant: God, Country, and Vietnam—A Novel. Mount Pleasant, MI: Glenn Street Press, 2010.
Davis, Elvernice “Sonny.” Reflections of an Army Chaplain: From Sonny to Reverend Davis to Chaplain Davis to Dr. Davis to Sonny—Just Tell the Truth. Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, 2020.
Dulany, Joseph P. Once a Soldier: A Chaplain’s Story. Self-published, 2001.
Gribble, Richard. Navy Priest: The Life of Captain Jake Laboon, SJ. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
Hopkins, Samuel W., Jr. A Chaplain Remembers Vietnam. Jacksonville, TX: Sampat Publisher, 2007.
Johnson, James D. Combat Chaplain: A 30-Year Vietnam Battle. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2001.
Litecky, Charles J. Renunciation: My Pilgrimage from Catholic Military Chaplain, Vietnam Hawk, and Medal of Honor Recipient to Civilian Warrior for Peace. San Francisco, CA: Charles J. Litecky and Judith Balch Litecky Trust, 2017.
Mode, Daniel L. The Grunt Padre: The Service and Sacrifice of Father Vincent Robert Capodanno, Vietnam, 1966–1967. Oak Lawn, IL: CMJ Marian Publishers, 2001.
Moore, Cdr Withers M. (CHC, USN). Navy Chaplains in Vietnam, 1954–1964. Washington, DC: Chief of Chaplains, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Department of the Navy, 1968.
Moore, Adm Withers M. (CHC, USN), Capt Herbert L. Bergsma (CHC, USN), and Lt Timothy J. Demy (CHC, USNR). Chaplains with U.S. Naval Units in Vietnam, 1954–1975: Selected Experiences at Sea and Ashore, vol. IX. Washington, DC: History Branch, Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Navy, 1985.
Newby, Claude D. It Took Heroes: Continuing the Story and Tribute to Those Who Endured the Darkest Days of Vietnam, vol. II. Orem, UT: Bonneville Books, 2000.
O’Connor, John J. A Chaplain Looks at Vietnam. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1969.
Scott, Quincy, Jr. The Battle Is Not Mine: The Life of a Black Army Chaplain during the 1960s and Early ’70s. Dikaisian Books, 2014.
Whitt, Jacqueline E. Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Gulf War
Ammerman, E. H. Jim, Charlene Ammerman, and Andrew Collins, After the Storm, 1st ed. Nashville, TN: Star Song Communications, 1991.
1991–Present
Adams, Cdr George (CHC, USN). Chaplains as Liaisons with Religious Leaders: Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, Peaceworks No. 56. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace, 2006.
Blair, LtCol John R. (USAF), and LtCol H. Bryan Highfill (USAF). Servants in the Storm. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air War College, Air University, 1992.
Brown, David Reid. Spirit Soundings: A Chaplain’s Journal of Life at Sea, vol. I, Sailing into a Hazardous World, vol. II, The Patriot’s Call, vol. III, Returning to America. Maitland, FL: Xulon Press, 2016.
Cash, Carey H. A Table in the Presence: The Dramatic Account of How a U.S. Marine Battalion Experienced God’s Presence Amidst the Chaos of the War in Iraq. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2006.
Gordon, Lt Terry C. (CHC, USN). The Chaplain as Religious Liaison in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Newport, RI: Joint Military Operations Department, Naval War College, 2006.
Lawson, LtCol Kenneth E. (CHC, USA). Faith and Hope in a War-torn Land: The US Army Chaplaincy in the Balkans, 1995–2005. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006.
Lindsey, Guy L. Peace in the Desert Storm. Cleveland, TN: White Wing Publishing, 1991.
Lloyd, Scottie R. Chaplain Contact with Local Religious Leaders: A Strategic Support. Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2005.
Lounello, Mark. Eternity Matters: A Journey of a Chaplain Assistant Post 9-11. Meadville, PA: Christian Faith Publishing, 2016.
McLaughlin, Capt Paul. The Chaplain’s Evolving Role in Peace and Humanitarian Relief Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace, 2002.
Ortiz, Mike. Green Beret Chaplain. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2013.
Scordo, Joseph A. Postcards from a Navy Chaplain. Washington, DC: Self-published, 2016.
Waite, Douglas J. By the Grace of God: The Autobiography of a Navy Chaplain. CreateSpace, 2016.
Yee, James. For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire. New York: Public Affairs, 2005.
Iraq
Basu, Moni. Chaplain Turner’s War. Evanston, IL: Agate Digital, 2012.
Benimoff, Roger. Faith Under Fire: An Army Chaplain’s Memoir. New York: Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing, 2009.
Bryan, Jeff. Memoirs from Babylon: A Combat Chaplain’s Life in Iraq’s Triangle of Death. La Vergne, TN: Combat Chaplain Ministries, 2011.
Burkes, Norris. Hero’s Highway: A Chaplain’s Journey Toward Forgiveness Inside a Combat Hospital. Self-published, 2015.
Chandler, Owen R. A Bridge in Babylon: Stories of a Military Chaplain in Iraq. Nashville, TN: Chalice Press, 2021.
Kittleson, Lance. Meditations from Iraq: A Chaplain’s Ministry in the Middle East 2003–2004. Lima, OH: CSS Publishing, 2005.
Linzey, Paul. Safest Place in Iraq: Experiencing God during War. New York: Morgan James Publishing, 2020.
Snively, Cdr Sheri. Heaven in the Midst of Hell: A Quaker Chaplain’s View of the War in Iraq. Jamul, CA: Raven Oaks Press, 2010.
Wismer III, Frank E. War in the Garden of Eden: A Military Chaplain’s Memoir from Baghdad. New York: Seabury Books, 2008.
Afghanistan
Ristau, Harold. At Peace with War: A Chaplain’s Meditations from Afghanistan. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2012.
Tyger, George. War Zone Faith: An Army Chaplain’s Reflections on Afghanistan. Boston, MA: Skinner House Books, 2013.
Government Documents
Book of Worship for United States Forces: A Collection of Hymns and Worship Resources for Military Personnel of the United States of America. Washington, DC: Armed Forces Chaplain’s Board, 1974.
Brinsfield Jr., John W. Encouraging Faith, Supporting Soldiers: The United States Army Chaplaincy, 1975–1995, vol. VII. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 1997.
Chaplains’ Corps with a General Officer as Chief Hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, 76th Cong., 1st Sess. (24 March 1939).
Chaplain Service, US Coast Guard: Serving Those Who Serve. Washington, DC: Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, 2000.
Coffey, LtCol R. Michael (CHC, USA). Chaplain Ministry to the Millennial Generation. Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2006.
Committee on the Judiciary, Chaplains in Congress and in the Army and Navy, 33d Cong., 1st Sess. (1854).
Councell, LtCol Gary R. (CHC, USA). Chaplain Roles in Humanitarian and Civic Assistance Operations. Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1994.
Greenslit, LtCol Lawrence P. (CHC, USA). Religion and the Military: A Growing Ethical Dilemma. Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 2006.
The Gunhus Years, 1999–2003: Courageous in Spirit, Compassionate in Service. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 2003.
Gushwa, Robert L. The Best and Worst of Times: The United States Army Chaplaincy, 1920–1945, vol. IV. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 1977.
Honeywell, Col Roy J. (CHC, USA). Chaplains of the United States Army. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 1958.
Kibben, LCdr Margaret Grun (CHC, USN). The Role and Mission of Chaplains in Humanitarian Assistance and Peace Operations (HA/POs). Newport, RI: Joint Military Operations Department, Naval War College, 1996.
Norton, Herman A. Struggling for Recognition: The United States Army Chaplaincy, 1791–1865, vol. II. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 1977.
Religious Support and Internal Advisement, ATP 1-05.04. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 2017.
Stover, Earl F. Up from Handymen: The United States Army Chaplaincy, 1865–1920, vol. III. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 1977.
“Terrorism: Radical Islamic Influence of Chaplaincy of the U.S. Military and Prisons.” Hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 108th Cong., 1st Sess. (14 October 2003).
Thompson, Parker C. From Its European Antecedents to 1791: The United States Army Chaplaincy, vol. I. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 1978.
Venzke, Rodger R. Confidence in Battle, Inspiration in Peace: The United States Army Chaplaincy, 1945–1975, vol. V. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Department of the Army, 1977.
Manuals, Handbooks, and Instructional Materials
Brown, W. Y. (CHC, UAS). The Army Chaplain: His Office, Duties, and Responsibilities, and the Means of Aiding Him. Philadelphia, PA: William S. & Alfred Martien, 1863.
The Commander’s Handbook for Religious Ministry Support, MCRP 3.30D.4. Washington, DC: Headquarters Marine Corps, 2016.
Frazier, John B. (CHC, USN). The Navy Chaplain’s Manual. Washington, DC: Secretary of the Navy, 1918.
Hammond, J. Pinkney (CHC, USA). The Army Chaplain’s Manual: Designed as a Help to Chaplains in the Discharge of Their Various Duties, Both Temporal and Spiritual. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1863.
Kramer, Maj Philip A. (CHC, USA). The Proximity Principle: Army Chaplains on the Fighting Line in Doctrine and History. Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2015.
Ministering to Jewish Personnel in the Absence of a Jewish Chaplain: A Manual for Jewish Lay Leaders. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1970.
Nave, Orville J. (CHC, USA). Nave’s Handbook on the Army Chaplaincy. Los Angeles, CA: published privately, 1917.
Nay, Maj Robert (CHC, USA). The Operational, Social, and Religious Influences upon the Army Chaplain Field Manual, 1926–1952. Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2008.
Religious Activities: Chaplain Training Strategy, Pamphlet 165-3. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1998.
Religious Ministry Team Handbook, MCRP 3-30D.3. Washington, DC: Headquarters Marine Corps, 2016.
Religious Support to Funerals and Memorial Events, ATP 1-05.02 Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 2018.