Among other images, Scripture uses marriage as a picture of God's relationship to his people. Scripture also prescribes numerous ways for that people to build their relationship with him. In order to give Christian marriages as many tools as possible for bolstering of the relati…
This dissertation explores the development of an American D-Day tale. D-Day, the Allied invasion of northwestern France in June 1944, stood out to Americans because it seemed to promise a quick end to the Second World War in Europe. This lasting conception of the amphibious assa…
War thrusts men and women, communities and nations into unfamiliar and otherwise unlikely situations and associations. And it is war in general, and twentieth-century warfare in particular, that has engendered widespread commemoration and remembrance of its combatants and victim…
Since its beginning, the Church has marked the joys and sorrows of life through ritual observance. Coming together in times of individual and community trauma can help create a path to wholeness. As people in the United States continue to disaffiliate from organized religion, th…