Registration is now open for After the Yellow Ribbon, an event coming up in November at Duke Divinity School, sponsored by the student group Milites Christi. The conference will include a performance by and conversation with artist Derek Webb as well as a keynote by West Point ethicist LTC Pete Kilner. To learn more about the event, click here, and check out the awesome video below of Anathea Portier-Young on the potential of the Christian Old Testament for healing the hidden wounds of war in our communities and in our lives.
- Part of an interview series with Duke University Divinity School faculty looking at the hidden wounds of war and the Church’s resources that can help those in recovery.~
Veterans today commit suicide at the highest rate in our nation’s history, have startling rates of prescription drug and alcohol abuse, and are often thought of as “damaged goods.” Our society must accept the responsibility of acknowledging and confronting the moral fragmentation that our service members suffer as a result of their experiences in war. After the Yellow Ribbon at Duke Divinity School is an opportunity for the ecclesial, academic, and martial communities in particular to listen to and learn from those who endure the burden of doing violence in our name.
We invite practitioners of all disciplines, from music and the arts to theology and mental health, to respond to the challenge presented by the plight of soldiers and veterans in our midst. We want to work together to improve our efforts at prevention and reconstitution, and overcome this tragic epidemic. After the Yellow Ribbon is designed to stimulate conversation between the church, military and academic communities so that all might approach service members and veterans as human beings, and more fully understand and heal the unseen wounds of war (including PTSD and moral injury).
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