PTSD
Jesus is traumatized
Minister and veteran David Peters invites us to consider our own post-traumatic identities in a new light.
In Leave No Trace, American life fails a veteran and his daughter
Debra Granik's film is a masterful familial drama—and much more.
What soldiers come home to
Can Christians display a life together that’s as compelling as war?
Power of naming
When we work with others or with ourselves, we cannot let the diagnosis define us, as humans. We need to resist the temptation to identify one another by our sickness or defects--even though the act gives us a certain power over one another. Looking beyond the label to the context forces us to think theologically about people.
Battle scars: Veterans turn to clergy for counseling
Mike is a veteran who attended college on the new GI Bill. When he walked into my office, I knew something was wrong.
by Jane Donovan
"No one talks about what happens to the people nothing happens to"
Via Rose Berger,
the summer issue of Portland magazine
includes an essay by Portland editor
and Century contributor Brian Doyle,
in which he quotes at length a conversation with a young U.S. war veteran named
Jackie. She paints a striking picture.
Counting the cost
“War is not healthy for children and other living things.” That consciously obvious claim—a favored bumper sticker in the 1960s—came to mind while reading a report in USA Today saying that one in four soldiers at the nation’s largest army post have been in counseling during the past year.