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Recent Examples of chaplain
Chips and Salsa For Thomas Settles, chaplain for the University of Georgia football team, chips and salsa are a must any time of day or year.
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Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2025
The volunteer chaplain at KHH, Reverend David Clark, was able to secure a special wedding license for the couple in just 48 hours.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
The demonstration on the bridge was held in support of Imam Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant and former Cincinnati Children's chaplain who was detained by ICE several days before.
—Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Nov. 2025
Her parents waited outside, praying with the hospital’s chaplain.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
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Scott Venable, lead pastor of Northwood Church in Keller, said the city has never been at risk of being governed by sharia or any other foreign laws.—
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This intrepid empire builder is married to the pastor, and not here to make friends.—
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Drawn to her difference, neighbors and coworkers treat Pavitra as a confessor and sounding board for their own preoccupations.—
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Instead, the central question and driving force is how Aggie and Brian will lure Nile out of the walled fortress afforded by wealth and into the trap of spilling his guts to a confessor.—
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When the university rector, church historian Karl Heussi, opposed Frick’s request, the students’ association, already dominated by National Socialist sympathizers, rebelled.—
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In an eight-page letter, Rachel Sheridan, the school’s rector, said there were no assurances from the federal government its scrutiny of the university would end with Ryan’s resignation.—
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Fast forward two years, after a period of poor mental health following my injury, the realization of the vicar’s sentence really hit.—
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Thankfully, the book was saved by being thrown out of a window by a local vicar, Johann Erichsons.—
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.—
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.—
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As a missionary, Helen likely taught the Bible to members of the Indigenous community, work that involved both the deliberate erasure of their traditions and a deep commitment to her church.—
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After World War I, the US Navy operated the Yangtze Patrol, a flotilla of gunboats that protected American interests – including missionaries and oil companies – inside China during a lengthy period of warlordism and instability.—
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Prevost was becoming a bishop of consequence.—
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The attack hit the Sokoto region of northwestern Nigeria, an area where a local Catholic bishop said in October that Christians aren't facing persecution.—
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.—
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.—
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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