Read a 2004 report that includes religious preferences in the military (see Page 25). The report found that service personnel were less likely than the general population to have a religious affiliation.

Read the U.S. Department of Defense Directive 1300.17, which governs the accommodation of religious practices in the military services.

Newport is a professor of Christian Thought in the department of Theology and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. His main interests include New Testament Studies and the use of the New Testament in various later contexts. An instance of this is its use by millennial groups or in the works of Charles Wesley.

Stayer is a professor emeritus in the history department at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. He studies Lutheran theology in the context of early modern European history. Evangelicalism is also a specialty of his.

Ross is an associate professor in the department of religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada. A focus of his is Lutheran theology and Evangelicals. He also studies religion and social change and new religious movements.

Spangler was an associate professor in the history department at the University of Calgary in Canada. She has published on Baptist theology and history in the U.S. She is also knowledgable in Anglican and evangelical theology.

Daniel Smith-Christopher is professor of theological studies and director of peace studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He served for two years in volunteer peace research in Israel/Palestine in the late 1980s. His publications include Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions and Jonah, Jesus and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace […]

Ira R. Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is interested in religion, war and peace and the connection between politics and faith. Among his publications are “Religion, War and Peace” in the Columbia Guide to Religion in American History; American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea; and Monsters […]

Richard B. Miller is a professor of religious studies and director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has written extensively about the ethics of war and peace, and his publications include 9/11, Radical Islam and the Disquiet of Equal Liberty.