News Chaplains Can Use

In our age of amazing internet and telecommunication technologies, privacy and confidentiality are becoming increasingly challenging for chaplains and other professionals requiring privileged communications. All calls, (landline-based and cellular) can be easily spoofed complete with a fake caller ID and phone number, and even recorded. Private text messages and emails can be readily hacked into from cell phones and tablets. And protection from such, or even detection of such, is increasingly challenging. I think that chaplains and pastoral counselors need to be aware of such and take caution when communicating by cell phones, tablets, and even regular daily email.

Please read “How I Spy On My Kids Online” found HERE.

The most recent issue of the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy contains two very significant, complementary reviews of research on chaplaincy in the U.S. These articles are so important to the field that JHCC’s publisher, Taylor & Francis, has made them available for free at the Journal's website. JHCC invites all members of NACC to go to the website to download these articles for free: Click Here. You are also invited to go to the following website, where you can download a free copy of an important article by George Fitchett about the use of case studies in chaplaincy, which appeared in JHCC earlier this year: Click Here.

Despite the fact that the following policy and practice has been unwaveringly and actively in place for all military chaplains since 1775, a number of chaplains and their endorsers anxiously encouraged Senator Roger Wicker to sponsor his amendment and have it attached to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. That amendment passed in December 2011, and it may be viewed here: [PDF Download].