June 18, 2010
Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/us/19beliefs.html?ref=religion_and_belief
When a chaplaincy dies, there is nobody to preside over the funeral. But if there were a funeral, would anyone show up?
In May 2009, Jennifer Walters, dean of religious life at Smith College, closed a budget gap by laying off her only three practicing chaplains, representatives of the American trinity of religious tradition: Protestant, Catholic and Jew.