Diversity Of Worship Poses Challenges for Chaplains At Fort Leonard Wood

November 7, 2009

Author: Darrell Todd Maurina

Source: Pulaski County Daily

http://www.pulaskicountydaily.com/news.php?viewStory=1315

American society may be less religious than it was a few generations ago, but its religious diversity has greatly increased. That change has dramatically impacted the Army, which must now offer religious services not only for Roman Catholics and mainline Protestants but also for a wide variety of different Christian denominations and minority faiths.

At Fort Leonard Wood, that diversity includes numerous Roman Catholic and several “collective Protestant” worship services, denominational on-post chapel services including Lutheran, Episcopalian, Church of Christ, several different types of evangelical worship services, and Latter-Day Saints worship, along with accommodation for off-post Seventh Day Adventist worship on Saturday. Three non-Christian faiths also have on-post chapel services, with Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist services held in various locations.