{"id":29348,"date":"2011-11-15T22:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T22:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_as_injured_vets_return_home_congregations_reach_out\/"},"modified":"2011-11-15T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T22:02:10","slug":"rns_as_injured_vets_return_home_congregations_reach_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29348","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) As Injured Vets Return Home, Congregations Reach Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChurches are kind of in the dark about how to help, unfortunately,\u201d\u009d said Peter Bauer, an ordained minister and clinical social worker with the Veterans Administration in San Antonio. \u201cBut they don\u2019t have to stay there. There are some very easy things that churches can do to be proactive and help with this population.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Bauer, a former Navy chaplain, recently convened workshops on PTSD and traumatic brain injury for pastors and seminarians at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Mass. His educational outreach builds on other small-scale initiatives that have gained momentum in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethicsdaily.com\/as-injured-vets-return-home-congregations-reach-out-cms-18826\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChurches are kind of in the dark about how to help, unfortunately,\u201d\u009d said Peter Bauer, an ordained minister and clinical social worker with the Veterans Administration in San Antonio. \u201cBut they don\u2019t have to stay there. There are some very<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29348\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,40,42,143,141,154,184,436,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-iraq-war","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}