STEs during military service: A pastoral perspective  

Rev John Price was a  Chaplain for the Texas National Guard and retired with the rank of  Colonel.  His pastoral counsel to US military service members gave  them some relief that they were perfectly normal, but had been blessed with some  type of STE.  He will share an account of a profound Near-Death  Experience a soldier experienced in Vietnam,  and how the NDE gave him a renewed  purpose in life.  Along with this account Rev Price will share how  these types of spiritual events help others find direction in life while they  also deal with the aftermath of aftereffects.

The Rev. John  W. Price, B.A., M.Div., is an Assisting Priest at Palmer Memorial Episcopal  Church in Houston TX He and his wife live in Houston where they are both  involved in the community.  He retired in 2004, after 32 years in parish  ministry in San Antonio, Austin (20 years) & Spring (8 years), and 7 years  as Chaplain at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston. He was a Chaplain for the  Houston Region of the FBI from '03 to '20.

He is a  graduate of the University of Texas (B.A., '61, Plan II, Liberal Arts) and the  Virginia Theological Seminary (M.Div., '64). He was ordained priest in '65 and  commissioned Chaplain (1LT) shortly afterward in the Texas Army National Guard.  He retired from the Guard as State Area Command Chaplain (Colonel) of the Texas  Military Forces in '95. He graduated from the School for Spiritual Directors at  the Pecos Benedictine Monastery in New Mexico in '86 and has been involved in  teaching and leading spiritual direction ever since. He is one of the founding  faculty of the diocesan school for spiritual directors, the Formation In  Direction (FIND) program, teaching the psychology of spirituality and about the  Near-Death Experiences. Member, International Assoc. for Near-Death Studies  (IANDS) , ’99- .

Price is author  of Revealing Heaven: the Christian Case for Near Death Experiences,  HarperCollins 2013. He has been panel member on pastoral ministry with NDErs for  three local IANDS conferences and was Keynoter for the Central Texas IANDS  Conference in 2016 and the initial meeting of the Houston Chapter of  IANDS.