Bill Cork
Bill Cork has spent thirty years in ministry, primarily in college and military chaplaincy. He’s now serving as assistant endorser for his denomination, while continuing to serve as a chaplain in the Army Reserve. A graduate of Atlantic Union College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, he has taught college and graduate courses in world religions and young adult ministry, and has been active in interfaith dialogue. His military experience includes Clinical Pastoral Education at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and a 2013 deployment to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He is a Suicide Intervention Trainer and a Combat Medical Pastoral Care Specialist. Recent study has focused on the area of Moral Injury in combat veterans. He is also active in the veterans community in Houston, having served as chaplain of his American Legion and VFW posts. He and his wife, Joy, were married in 1982 and have two adult children.
To Life!
In “Fiddler on the Roof,” Tevye and Lazar Wolf joyously celebrate their agreement on Lazar’s engagement to Tzeitel by toasting, “L’Chaim”—“To Life!” Their duet goes on to playfully contrast the joys and sorrows of life, with the repeated exclamation that despite the times of confusion, sadness, or bitterness, each moment of happiness should be grasped, … To Life!
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Reflections in the Quiet
This month began with my 55th birthday. I anticipated this milestone with some anxiety, because it was at Christmas, 1970, that my grandfather died of a heart attack while on a business trip to Galesburg, Illinois. I was 9. That Christmas morning, I opened his final present to me, a beagle puppy that we named … Reflections in the Quiet
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