The Refinery

For Veterans Only

Blogs for Veterans

Walking Home? — explains the heart of the series: wounds of the soul need more than coping skills; they need a Healer. It names the biblical companions readers will meet (David the hunted soldier, Asaph the sleepless, Elijah the burned-out, Joseph the betrayed) and says plainly that every post lands at the feet of Christ. Pull quote: Psalm 147:3 (NLT). (click on any word to go to the series)

No Front Line — A Reflection for the Iraq and Afghanistan Generation - You fought a different kind of war than the generations before you. There was no front line. No safe rear. The enemy didn't wear a uniform, and death could be waiting in a parked car, a crowded market, or a stretch of ordinary road. You may have gone back not once but three, four, five times — coming home just long enough to start to soften, then re-armoring to go again. And when it was finally over, some of you watched on a screen as the ground you bled for was handed back, and a question rose up that no one around you seemed to understand: was it worth it? No Front Line is written for you — the post-9/11 veterans who carried the longest wars in American history, and carried them home. (Click on any word to go to the series)