FOB Jackson is an effort to remember now. Two weeks ago, I was sitting on a hescoe sipping a coke and watching the sun go down over one of the most war-torn places on earth.
Last night I had dinner at the Goetz Dining Facility (DFAC) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Walton, which is a short helicopter flight from Kandahar, Afghanistan.
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue… So began the ditty that most of us (children in U.S. schools) learned about Christopher Columbus, who (we were taught) “discovered” America. I remember making little replicas of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria out of walnut shells, play dough, and toothpicks. This was […]
The Army Chaplain Corps has a motto: “nurture the living, care for the wounded, honor the dead.” Army chaplains hold the sacred trust of the people of the United States to provide soul care for America’s sons and daughters.
I love Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Her melancholy words bounce along on a light and happy tune.
If we hadn’t learned it already from reading the Ecclesiastes section of the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament), many of us absorbed this piece of scripture through a musical rendition by Pete Seeger or The Byrds.
What, I ask myself, does it take to live in at-one-ment? I can imagine the road I need to travel from where I am now to a place of living in at-one-ment with myself, with my friends and family, with my neighbors, with the world…
This week we grieve the loss of Marines.Grief continues, but it feels as if we do not have much time to grieve. There is a war. We have a mission.
Opening Words No. 418, “Come into the circle of love and justice” From Singing the Living Tradition Hymn No. 93 To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love from Singing the Living Tradition Children’s Story “The Healing Power of God” by Mary Ann Moore Once a boy went to visit his grandparents. At his grandparents’ place there […]
Opening Words There is no human being who does not carry a treasure in the soul, a moment of insight, a memory of life, a dream of excellence, a call to worship. Hymn No. 360 “Here We Have Gathered” from Singing the Living Tradition Children’s Story “Hosea Ballou: What Are You Thinking?” By Denise D. […]
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