{"id":478,"date":"2024-01-25T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:26:41","slug":"nyt-an-atheist-chaplain-counsels-a-death-row-inmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"NYT: An atheist chaplain counsels a death row inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a feature in the NY Times a number of days ago. Interesting and in a way, sad. Hit the link for the whole article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/21\/us\/an-atheist-chaplain-and-a-death-row-inmates-final-hours.html?campaign_id=2&amp;emc=edit_th_20240121&amp;instance_id=113115&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;regi_id=87616590&amp;segment_id=155967&amp;user_id=1c634a87d1656cc79c8753416632bbac\">An Atheist Chaplain and a Death Row Inmate\u2019s Final Hours. Devin Moss spent a year ministering to convicted killer Phillip Hancock. Together, they wrestled with one question: How to face death without God.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Moss, a chaplain, had spent the year working as the spiritual adviser to Phillip Hancock, a death row inmate in Oklahoma&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hancock, convicted of two murders he committed in 2001, was scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. With three hours to go, his lawyers were still hoping that Oklahoma\u2019s governor would grant him clemency, as the state parole board had voted to recommend three weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">**************************<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Moss thought of the outrage Hancock had shared with him. \u201cThe good Christians are going to strap me to a crucifix and put a nail in my vein?\u201d Hancock had asked. \u201cDo they really think that their God approves of them?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a feature in the NY Times a number of days ago. Interesting and in a way, sad. Hit the link for the whole article. An Atheist Chaplain and a Death Row Inmate\u2019s Final Hours. Devin Moss spent a year ministering to convicted killer Phillip Hancock. Together, they wrestled with one question: How to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7185,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}