No Atheists In Foxholes: Reflections and Prayers From the Front

Experience gripping wartime stories and honest prayers by this Camp David chaplain now serving in Iraq. When words mean less and less but money talks more and more; when blasphemy is a best seller and eternal war has replaced hopeful diplomacy; in times like these is prayer even possible? Patrick J. McLaughlin thinks so. McLaughlin is an active duty Navy Chaplain who has ministered to heads of state and to soldiers living and dying in the heat of Iraq.No Atheists in Foxholes assembles Chaplain McLaughlins experiences and prayers from e-mails private notes and personal conversations that take us real-time into realms of duty and spirit: from the quiet darkness of his infant sons New England bedroom on September 11 2001 to the bomshelled medical tents and blistered Army Humvees of Anbar Province. Chaplain McLaughlin believes that prayer is not only possible but critical. We must all learn to pray for peace he says and then become an answer to that prayer.