Read an April 2006 Christianity Today article about evangelical chaplains’ desire to use the name of Jesus while praying.

Read a Jan. 16, 2007, Baptist Press article about a Marine chaplain who said the Navy retaliated against him after he spoke out about its religious policies.

Read a Feb. 19, 2007, Washington Post story about a man removed from the Army’s chaplain corps when he asked to be recognized as a Wiccan chaplain.

Read an Aug. 21, 2007, Christianity Today article about parachurch groups’ outreach to troops and their families.

View an April 4, 2008, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly story about Army chaplain training.

Read a June 25, 2008, New York Times story about allegations of religious pressure at the Army and Navy service academies.

Read a transcript of a July 3, 2008, interview with George Washington University church-state expert Robert Tuttle about current issues of faith in the military, posted at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

James J. Megivern is an emeritus professor of religion at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He is an expert on Christian ethics and capital punishment and is author of The Death Penalty: An Historical and Theological Survey.

Herbert H. Haines is a sociology professor at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. He studies social movements for criminal justice reform and is the author of Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994.