A second disaster phase in the Boston Marathon bombing consists of the multiple federal, state and local governmental and non-governmental responders. Literally hundreds of faith-based and community-based organizations deployed to assist the survivors of the explosions and assist the City of Boston in the hours after the explosions.

Since...

An incident of national and international significance tainted by the brutal murder of innocent spectators and officials in Boston yesterday afternoon. Multiple crude explosions for maximum casualties and media exposure. Terror at its most visceral and calculated.

The event may not be over as the official press conference alerted...

It started at Glover's the Clothier when I went to get my Boy Scout uniform. He would measure my inseam and pretend to measure "accurately." It was 1962.

In summer school, there were tickle sessions and wrestling matches on the old sofa from the teacher's lounge placed in the main...

Our current HuffPost Book Club pick is "What It Is Like To Go To War" by Karl Marlantes. We are talking about different aspects of the military experience over on our Book Club page; this entry was created as part of the discussion; go to the...

Our current HuffPost Book Club pick is "What It Is Like To Go To War" by Karl Marlantes. We are talking about different aspects of the military experience over on our Book Club page; this entry was created as part of the discussion; go to the page to...

Creating light

You know the spirit crushers. They're all around us. And, we know those who create light. Those who model abundance and sustained caring at the same time not only survive, but also thrive. In medicine, failure to thrive a diagnosis precedes death. That's anticipated grief. Hospice care...

I may not be able to see "War Horse." I still cannot watch "When the Levees Broke" or "Philadelphia." It's always hard to watch people and animals suffering. Played repeatedly, it becomes disaster pornography. After 10 years working in disaster spiritual care management, and another eight years in hospital and...

Unemployment and underemployment are spiritually and emotionally violent. Invoked are many questions to consider.

Anger and depression, the absence of hope, the inability to be considered for even an interview without the knowledge of 'key' words that will match a computer search for the first screening...

For persons of faith, disaster response may be the social action of our time.

For those who, in another era, protested war or marched for civil rights, this past decade has seen catastrophic weather and human-caused events that defy imagination and probability. Images repeatedly played (and over-played) with tales of...

Until June 30, I had the honor and privilege of managing spiritual care for the American Red Cross at their national headquarters in Washington, D.C. I received disaster spiritual care manager training with Red Cross in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks on America.

In the past 10...