I’ve been trained as a chaplain and had always heard that there was a market for chaplains in corporate America.

This excerpt from Chaplains in the Workplace in Science and Theology News details the role of the chaplain.

“Among the typical types of services a workplace chaplain can provide to an employee is financial and debt counseling, marriage counseling, and alcohol and substance abuse counseling,” said Dwayne Reece, vice president of Corporate Chaplains of America based in Wake Forest, N.C. “Workplace chaplains are also trained to intercede if domestic abuse is suspected and provide help, if needed and asked for, to the victims.”

It sounded like a good part-time job for me, but after some investigation of the Corporate Chaplains of America on their application during which I found out that I would have to detail my conversion experience and the transforming experience of Jesus Christ in my life (as well as abstaining from alcohol), I decided to keep the writing gigs.

Have I mentioned that if I get divorced I lose my job with them? Now, I’m not getting divorced, but isn’t that totally UN-CHRIST-LIKE to take your job away when you’re going through some personal trauma?! I think so.

Such a good idea. Such poor execution.