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November 6, 2009: Healing the Wounds of War
Revisit our November 2007 Web-only essay on the spiritual and moral pain of war. "My sense is that this is a fundamentally religious issue," says clinical psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, a combat trauma expert.
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May 22, 2009: Homage and Commemoration
At the memorial for the American dead of Vietnam, writes Lorrie Goldensohn, we meet as a community and are made to see that "we are always at one with the living and the dead."
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January 18, 2008: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Heschel is widely considered to be one of the greatest American religious figures of the last century -- a rabbi, theologian, social activist and mystic admired by Christians as well as Jews. He would have been 101 years old this month.
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November 30, 2007: Healing the Wounds of War
Benedicta Cipolla writes about the emotional, psychological, and spiritual battles soldiers in war must fight in addition to the physical dangers of combat.
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August 27, 2004: William Sloane Coffin
As chaplain of Yale University in the '60s and '70s, Coffin be came one of the best known -- and most controversial -- figures not only against the war, but also in the civil rights movement and the campaign for a freeze on nuclear weapons. Throughout his life, Coffin preached that social justice was central to Christianity.
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