Word: chaplains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McLennan himself entered college in the late 1960s as an atheist. It was Chaplain Coffin who helped him find religion, Unitarian Universalism...
McLennan, who is also the Tufts University Chaplain, sat for more than an hour after the panel meticulously signing over 70 copies of his book, Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Lost Its Meaning, copies of which had quickly sold out. Some attendees spoke to the author as if he were their personal spiritual leader...
McLennan, with his bushy eyebrows, beard and fading red hair, resembles Trudeau's character, who is also modeled after William Sloane Coffin. Coffin was McLennan's mentor and the Yale chaplain while he and Trudeau were undergraduate suite-mates there...
...work as chaplain, McLennan said he has found that he has met more and more students and faculty who say they are spiritual, and not religious...
...Then there were the 77 soldiers who the chaplain had said had come to see him within just a few weeks, all begging for passage from purgatory. There was the Jamaican who affixed a padlock to his belt and started beating guards; the kid who was sleeping in the drill sergeant's office because he'd threatened to kill himself in front of a corporal...