The killing of Iraq veteran and national figure Chris Kyle prompted media queries and questions for the three of us who run the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School. Our Center is dedicated to recovery from moral injury in veterans. Rev. Dr. Coleman Baker, Chaplain (Col.) Herman Keizer, Jr....

In the White House talks about gun control, I hope someone exposes the deceptive, pernicious and incendiary myth of redemption through violence that props up Wayne LaPierre and the NRA gun lobby. Despite their political impotence in the last election, they are at the talks.

That suicidal, delusionary...

The disheveled robed woman, head covered, grasps fiercely at a baby as an armored soldier holds the infant upside down by a tiny foot and stabs it with his sword. Nearby, another women reaches desperately toward a small child impaled on a spear while a soldier holds her at arm's...

California's death row, the nation's largest, constitutes a fourth of all awaiting execution. On election day, Proposition 34, the "End the Death Penalty" initiative, failed. Those who opposed Prop 34 wanted execution for the state's most heinous killers.

What constitutes such a killer? Perhaps

A cruel, violent death, inflicted on purpose, is criminal and immoral, and Jesus was tortured and brutally lynched by a military empire that he organized a movement to oppose. Believing God thought his execution was necessary to save the world of sin is like thinking that pouring sludge on people...

Mitt Romney Palined his campaign by making a desperate Hail Mary political choice to mollify the far right with a fascist running mate, thereby shooting himself in the left foot. Unlike the inspiration for the verb, who has spawned many a satire, the pious, grim Ryan is not nearly as...

This piece was co-authored by Col. Herman Keizer, Jr. (ret.), Co-Director of the Soul Repair Center, who served for 34 years as a military chaplain, and Dr. Gabriella Lettini, co-author of 'Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War,' Beacon, forthcoming November 2012.

The crisis of military suicides,...

[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...