This brief sharing of my experiences as an active-duty and reserve Army chaplain has been years in the making.
While there are far more joyful memories than sorrow-filled memories, the latter are painful and some of them were not comfortable to revisit-especially the memories involving families who lost their soldier.
The time frame for this story is my service as an Army Reserve chaplain from 1991-2013, including over seven years on active duty.
It has been my observation that a majority of the general public (and in fact, a lot of military service members) do not understand what a military chaplain does-other than the insights provided by the TV series M*A*S*H and the character of Father (chaplain) Mulcahy.
My hope in publishing this book is that people will gain a deeper insight into and appreciation for the work of military chaplains, my brothers and sisters in ministry.
About author(s): Chaplain (LTC) Les Maloney, retired, is a graduate of Baylor University (PhD, 2005).
He published an earlier book on the psalms titled A Word Fitly Spoken: Poetic Artistry in the First Four Acrostics of the Hebrew Psalter (New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009).
In 2003-2004, he wrote a series of articles on the army chaplaincy ministry in Iraq, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper.
In the civilian part of his life, Chaplain Maloney preached for local churches in Iowa, Arizona, and Texas.
Chaplain Maloney is also a graduate of Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee (MA; MTh) and Lubbock Christian University (BA).
Lieutenant Colonel Maloney retired from the army reserve chaplaincy after twenty-two years of service (including more than seven years on active duty) and moved to Oklahoma City to be close to the grandchildren.
His wife, Margaret, is a middle school computer science and math teacher.
Maloney also serves as chair for the Professional Advisory Group, Clinical Pastoral Education program, Christus-Spohn Hospitals in Corpus Christi.
| Author(s) | Chaplain (ltc) |
|---|---|
| Spoken | Poetic |
| Ny | Peter |
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Westbow Press Faith, hope, love, and amazing grace: one army chaplain's favorite psalms, paperback/les d. maloney
