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John Swinton appointed as Queen's chaplain

John Swinton, one of Scotland’s most influential theologians, will become one of the Queen of England’s royal chap­lains. Swinton, who was a nurse for 16 years, is currently the chair of divinity and religious studies at the University of Aberdeen, where he has worked to develop a theology of disability.

In a statement, Swinton joked that because, historically, some of the royal chaplains were singers who traveled with the monarch, he—a singer and songwriter—could perhaps revive that aspect of the position.

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