chaplaincy
Americannoun
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chaplaincies
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As a chaplaincy trainee, I entered the hospital expecting to encounter ritual in overtly religious settings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The change affects how the military tracks and organizes religious affiliation data used for chaplaincy services, accommodations, and internal reporting.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Katherine Watson, 50, who worked as the head of chaplaincy at a Newcastle NHS trust and was featured in the TV series Geordie Hospital, went missing on Thursday.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
But many chaplains and interfaith organizations oppose the chaplaincy campaign, calling the motivation offensive and describing the dangers of introducing a position of authority to children without clear standards or boundaries.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
“Ewo, I am late for a chaplaincy council meeting,” he said, looking at the clock.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A vexatious problem to U. S. Protestant churches and to the U. S. Department of Justice has been prison chaplaincies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last fall, Baptist Dr. Alfred Carpenter made a two-month, 33,000-mile tour of U.S. chaplaincies from Casablanca to Japan, Korea and the Pacific for the Navy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Churches, schools and chaplaincies were some 3,000 priests short.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among them: rural reconstruction, the home and family life, chaplaincies among munition workers, youth, prisoners of war, the position of churches on the Continent, post-war reconstruction of Europe and the Far East.
From Time Magazine Archive
These three men, and another opponent, Robert Moss, dean of Ely, were deprived of their royal chaplaincies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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