Were it not for the political wrangling over whether he is a hero or a traitor, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who arrived in San Antonio early Friday, might well be held up as a classic example of the religious seeker: the deeply spiritual quester after truth, light and justice.\u00a0<\/span> Were it not for the political wrangling over whether he is a hero or a traitor, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who arrived in San Antonio early Friday, might well be held up as a classic example of the religious seeker: the deeply spiritual quester after truth, light and justice.\u00a0Yet the news media have been curiously silent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
<\/span>Yet the news media have been curiously silent on the question of his religious background. Aside from vague references to his belonging to a Calvinist church, no one has taken a serious look at how that church might have played a role in his decision to join the Army, and subsequently to leave his unit behind.\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>Philip Proctor, the Bergdahls\u2019 pastor at Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Boise, told The Huffington Post that Bowe had \u201cgrown up in a conservative Christian home, and he was trying to figure out if this was his faith or his parents\u2019 faith.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>Maybe. But in young Bergdahl\u2019s case \u2014 unlike that of the more typical Catholic or Jewish or mainline Protestant adolescent \u2014 the devil had to have been in the details. His family\u2019s faith, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, makes extraordinary demands on a sensitive young person\u2019s conscience and conduct.<\/span>
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