Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.

[This piece is written with Gabriella Lettini and based on our book Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War.]

On Memorial Day, President Barack Obama will attend an anniversary ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It's a long custom for presidents to honor the nation's war...

Occupy Oakland has endured two months of police harassment. We have managed to maintain a presence at the plaza where we originally pitched our tents, which were removed in a second raid on Nov. 14. But this has gotten increasingly difficult; the city has decided that passing out food, resting...

During the eight hours I spent in the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility in Oakland, I had a lot of time to think as I sat in a concrete cell and watched my seven other Occupy Oakland female cellmates sleeping on the cold, hard floor.

Until Wednesday last week,...

I was driving to San Francisco for a meeting when I got the reporter's call about the shooting last night at Occupy Oakland. He thought that I might be taking a shift at the Interfaith Tent, which is near where the gunshots happened, and that I could tell him what...

Wednesday, I hopped on a city bus and headed to Frank Ogawa Plaza at Oakland city hall for a liberation Bible Study led by the Seminary of the Street whose motto is "Meet Us at the Corner of Love and Justice!"

I never made it to the Bible...

[Rev. Dr. Gabriella Lettini co-authored this piece. We led the team that organized the Truth Commission on Conscience in War and are members of the leadership team for "The Soul Repair Project."]

By year's end, 40,000 U.S. troops will return from Iraq and, according...

Anders Behring Breivik borrowed Timothy McVeigh's strategy to blow up a public building, but he outdid McVeigh by gunning down dozens of young people at a camp after the explosion. Both were young white Christian men who wanted to provoke a cosmic war to save Christendom and rescue society...

When I was a feminist seminarian in the late 1970s, an older woman named Jessie attended a meeting of our Claremont, Calif., seminarians and wives group to enlist us in her cause for mothers. She was appalled that new apartment complexes could ban children and were clearly designed to discourage...

All week, I could not tear myself away from the news from Japan. Though my own family and friends there are safe, I do not think anyone in Japan will be all right for a very long time.
Though I left Japan at the age of six and...

Jon Stewart made a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to get former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to admit the Iraq War was a colossal mistake sold by lies. Unlike Robert McNamara who offered a too-little, too-late mea culpa about Vietnam, Rumsfeld did his best to dodge all culpability...

The guest piece below was written by a colleague, Rev. Craig M. Watts, who is Co-Moderator of the Executive Committee of Disciples Peace Fellowship and minister of Royal Palm Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Coral Springs, Fla. I thought Huffington Post readers would appreciate this critique of outrageous comments...

"What do you think of Obama?" My evangelical, Republican aunt and uncle asked me two years ago. "We think he's a murderer!" They had concluded this because he supported women's right to safe and legal abortions. I was pretty sure we weren't going to reach common ground, so I pointed...

This Advent season, an atheist group put up a billboard at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel that says "You know it's a myth -- this season, celebrate reason." The atheist appeal relies on the literal impossibility of a boy being conceived without a donor with a Y...

The right wing punditry is at it again this year, stirring up a sense of victimization by claiming sensitivity to other faiths constitutes a "war on Christmas" and Christians. They've even stooped to the point of reporting an untrue story.

This hysteria is a house...

This past Sunday, the Christian season of Advent began. The word literally means "coming" or "arrival." It's a bit crazy-making, what with all the work and preparation for Christmas entailed. We're supposed to be getting ready for the birth of Jesus, though it's hard to figure out what...

In his new book on President Obama's struggle to create a viable Afghanistan policy, Bob Woodward notes Pentagon opposition to the President's desire to de-escalate the conflict and withdraw. Among those opposed was Defense Secretary Gates, who's beginning to resemble Robert McNamara of Vietnam.

We've seen what...

In attacking Park51, the Cordoba Initiative's Islamic cultural center, the Geller-Palin-Gingrich-Beck-FOX syndicate has suddenly hallowed an old Burlington Coat Factory that lies two blocks from Ground Zero. Yet it appears that Ground Zero itself is suffering their neglect. They've failed to condemn the tacky souvenir stand and Burger King across...

Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to allow resumption of legal same-sex weddings in California has right-wing Christians claiming his ruling against Proposition 8 threatens "Bible believing Christians." I've read the Bible pretty carefully myself (I read it cover to cover when I was in high school) and even taught...

By Barbara Blaine and Rita Nakashima Brock

The clergy sex abuse and cover-up crisis continue not only across Europe but also across the globe. Nowhere, however, has the recent crisis been more acute than in Belgium. Over the span of just a few weeks, the New York Times...

The FBI just broke up a homegrown Christian terrorist group, the Hutaree, in Michigan. How is it that a religion that claims that followers should turn the other cheek and love their enemies can breed such hate and violence? Unfortunately, Western Christianity has supported holy wars for a millennium,...