Armed Forces Day
Last updated: 27 June 2010
In the week which saw the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan pass the 300 mark, Wales has been hosting the UK's second Armed Forces Day.
As well as the spectacle and the fun - the celebration parade and the band performances, the military history talks and the promotion of veterans charities, the day raises serious questions about our attitude to military service, and to wider questions of war and peace.
In this week's "All Things Considered" (broadcast Sunday 27 June at 8.30 am) Roy Jenkins asks what are the specifically religious issues, and what, in particular, is the role of the military chaplain? Joining him are Tudor Botwood, Baptist minister and chaplain with the Royal Navy; retired Anglican army chaplain Jim Cross; Symon Hill - a Quaker and Associate Director of the Christian think-tank Ekklesia; and Efa Wulle of the faith-based pacifist movement Cymdeithas y Cymod, the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
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