Based on extensive in-depth interviews with more than thirty active duty chaplains regarding their successes, failures and conflicts, the book is about the way military chaplains handle religious diversity among the enlisted they serve and within their own corps.

Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Family -- 2. Youth and Early Manhood -- 3. Crisis and Conversion -- 4. Family Man and Burgeoning Author -- 5. Providence and Sea Power: Our Jomini Is Here -- 6. A Public Christian -- 7. Final Days -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

An intensely human document, enlivened with sketches of the people he met and places he visited, Teonge's Diary is one of the finest accounts of life on board ship in the seventeenth century.