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Public Safety Chaplains and Line-of-Duty Death: Walking With the Grieving chaplaincy-training grief-and-loss line-of-duty-death ministry-of-presence public-safety working-chaplains Jul 16, 2026

Every line-of-duty death tests a department, and it tests the chaplain who walks beside it. A fallen officer or firefighter leaves grief that spreads far past one family. It reaches the squad room, the station, the wider responder community, and the home where the porch light stays on. Public safety...

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