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United States Army Chaplaincy: A Model for Interfaith Work 

by Peter Anthony Baktis


I entered the United States Chaplaincy in the summer of 1990, a time that I thought was relatively peaceful and stable. It had been almost one year since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and one year before the demise of the Soviet Union. Little did I know that my next twenty-five years of service would begin with the invasion of Kuwait and end with the Iraqi war. Twenty-five years of an army at war in places that most Americans did not even know, such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, to name a few… 

Peter Anthony Baktis

V. Rev. Peter A Baktis is the Rector of Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow, Princeton, NJ. He served as a US Army chaplain for 25 years. He completed his DMin in Missiology from St. Vladimir’s Seminary, MTh, and MDiv from the General Theological Seminary, and an MDiv from St. Vladimir’s Seminary, Master of Strategic Studies Army War College, and a Graduate Certificate, Religion and Politics, Regent University. Represents the OCA National Council of Churches, Interfaith Convening Table, and Theological Tasks Force, and is a member of the Steering Committee of Christian Churches Together. 

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