Remembering the Silent Years of Service

Remembering the Silent Years of Service

Henry Sledge’s book, With the Old Breed: The Complete Story Revealed, concludes the profound history of his father about the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. E.B. Sledge’s original manuscript spanned 1,000 pages, but publishers required it to be cut down, leaving...
Learning to See

Learning to See

Rereading Genesis 1 helped me remember that our role in this world is to subdue as God subdues and to steward as God stewards God’s beloved creation. We often become too self-focused, believing only humans matter. I have been on this good earth for 75 years. Only a...
Targeted Cruelty on LGBTQ+ Veterans

Targeted Cruelty on LGBTQ+ Veterans

I cannot understand why this administration and so many Republican politicians have declared war on transgender people in our midst. There are countless problems with this aggressive campaign, but one especially disturbing example surfaced recently when...