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Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) Bill McCoy,
USA, has been an ordained Lutheran Minister since “1977 and has published numerous articles in theological journals
and professional magazines. His formal education has been at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
in Columbia, South Carolina (M.Div.), and at the Protestant Faculty of the University of Strasbourg France (Ph.D.).
He is ordained by the South Carolina Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).” During
his military career, Chaplain Bill McCoy has had assignment which included Campus Chaplain to the Command and
General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. and chaplain for U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Chaplain Bill McCoy is the author of Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel.
Chaplain
Bill McCoy said
of Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel, “I am a Lutheran Minister serving
on active duty in the U.S. Army. I've been an Army Chaplain for 18 years and come from a family of military people as
well as church people. It is important to me that as we journey in our faith that we begin to find where we identify theologically.
The reason for this is because life doesn't stand still. And some of the things you say you believed when you were young
after a while become outdated and not as convenient when you face the challenges of life, disease, human relationship failures
and problems with careers. By identifying with a theological center we are able to discover more about God than ever before
and to enrich our lives with new discoveries and possibilities for God's grace to enter our dimly lit lives.”
According to the book description of
Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel, it “is written for you in the military
services who seek to nurture and sustain your faith in the face of war, deployments and the troubling questions of faith and
life. Chaplain Bill McCoy's work is inspirational-- it guides soldiers as they struggle with the questions surrounding
their service and their faith...a great book for soldiers to read several times throughout their careers, because while the
questions he poses will always remain the same, the answers will change with age, experience, and in a deepening conviction.
Under Orders should be in every rucksack for those moments when Soldiers need spiritual energy.”
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