A Vital Ministry: Chaplaincy in Schools in the Post-Christian EraA Vital Ministry describes the situation of the 'post millennium' generation of the young as threatening to their human flourishing. Their economic, political and cultural context is potentially oppressive, and the education system in this country no longer seeks to provide 'spiritual capital' to resource the young. The special role of Church of England schools is to provide a holistic education which values the spiritual dimension, genuinely