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

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 the shortage of Army chaplains.

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

Toulouse is a professor in History of Christianity at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, in Toronto, ON, Canada. He is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). This allows him to regularly conduct workshops for ministers and lay people on North American Christianity, Disciples of Christ history and theology, religion and public life, […]

Rabbi Malka Drucker of Santa Fe, N.M., is the author of White Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America.

Deborah M. Gill is professor of New Testament exposition at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Mo. She served as commissioner of discipleship and national director of Christian education for the Assemblies of God and was senior pastor of Living Hope Church in North Oaks, Minn. She has written articles about women clergy in the […]

The Rev. Sharon Watkins is general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a mainline Protestant denomination.

The Rev. Julie Pennington-Russell is senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga. A megachurch, it is the largest woman-led church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, whose Faith and Message statement states, “While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by […]