Meet UWest: Ven. Hyun Gak and Rev. Danny Fisher

"Bulletproof Vests For Chaplains"

This from KTLU:

Volunteers with the Tulsa Police Chaplaincy Corp will have extra protection when they are called to dangerous crime scenes.

Vest For Life, a non-profit organization, provides free body armor to law enforcement across the country.

Today, the group donated ballistic vests to each of the 17 Police Chaplains, plus a few extra for other police officers.

It was the largest one day donation in the program's history. It was valued at $25,500.

The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene recently reported that an estimated 236,000 police officers did not have body armor to protect them.

Vest For Life says it has donated 1,450 vests free of charge since May 2009.

"Making Hospital Chapel Welcoming to All Faiths"

The New York Times has the story.

The Yale Daily News Interviews University Buddhist Chaplain Bruce Blair

Take a look right here.

"'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Halt Challenges Chaplains"

USA Today's Faith & Reason blog has the story.

Jeff Sharlet: "Are Military Chaplains Becoming Increasingly Fundamentalist?"

The great religion journalist and bestselling author of The Family and C Street addresses this question in a new write-up for The Huffington Post.

"Navy to Get More Buddhist Chaplains"

Via God and Country:

US Navy Ensign Aroon Seeda is reportedly being commissioned into the Chaplain Candidate Program. When he completes his requirements, he will reportedly be the second (or perhaps third) Buddhist Chaplain in the US Navy. Like several other Buddhist Chaplains, Seeda will attend University of the West, a Buddhist school in southern California.

Likewise, Brett Campbell will enter the Candidate program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Naropa was founded Buddhist Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Congratulations, gentlemen!