{"id":28275,"date":"2016-05-27T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=28275"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:57:58","slug":"veterans-needs-are-an-area-of-rising-concern-and-an-opportunity-for-learning-and-ministry-at-eastern-mennonite-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/veterans-needs-are-an-area-of-rising-concern-and-an-opportunity-for-learning-and-ministry-at-eastern-mennonite-seminary\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans&#8217; needs are an area of rising concern, and an opportunity for learning and ministry, at Eastern Mennonite Seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation about the needs and issues facing military veterans has been arising in an unexpected place this year: the halls of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/seminary\/\">Eastern Mennonite Seminary<\/a> (EMS).<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue has grown as several graduate students recently focused their culminating research projects for their <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/lancaster\/seminary\/graduate-programs\/master-of-divinity\/\">Master of Divinity<\/a> degrees on veterans\u2019 concerns. They include Matt Stearn, who looked at how Mennonite denominations can provide healing communities for combat veterans, and Methodist pastor and former combat veteran Darin Bus\u00e9, who named spiritual trauma as another casualty of combat.<\/p>\n<p>Though the topic is an unusual area of interest for a seminary in the historic peace church tradition, EMS dean Michael King says the timely and necessary discussion \u201cplunges the seminary into one of the most critical issues of our day. There is a sense of really powerful mutual healing potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Read an account written by King and Bus\u00e9, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/02\/lenten-reflections-a-pacificst-and-a-combat-veteran-are-filled-by-the-holy-spirit-at-the-footwashing-bowl\/\">healing experienced during foot-washing<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, a small stream of veterans or those closely connected to veterans have found their way to both the seminary and to undergraduate programs at EMU. Among them is Michael McAndrew, a U.S. Navy veteran earning dual degrees in conflict transformation and counseling. With a professional interest in serving veterans, McAndrew recently was <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/05\/committed-to-serving-fellow-veterans-michael-mcandrew-earns-scholarship-to-complete-counseling-conflict-transformation-degrees\/\">awarded a scholarship<\/a> to help finish his studies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28292\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/05\/committed-to-serving-fellow-veterans-michael-mcandrew-earns-scholarship-to-complete-counseling-conflict-transformation-degrees\/20160524-michael-mcandrew-counseling-scholarship-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28292\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/20160524-Michael-McAndrew-Counseling-scholarship-1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/20160524-Michael-McAndrew-Counseling-scholarship-1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/20160524-Michael-McAndrew-Counseling-scholarship-1.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Navy veteran Michael McAndrew is earning dual degrees in conflict transformation and counseling. Recently awarded a $5,000 scholarship, McAndrew plans to work with veterans in the future.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His activism, among other projects, has resulted in <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/11\/overwhelming-response-to-veterans-remembrance-at-pacifist-emu\/\">visible projects<\/a> on campus to highlight veterans\u2019 suicides.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, EMU\u2019s peacebuilding experts have over the years engaged with military communities. For example, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/star\/training\/the-journey-home-from-war\/\">The Journey Home From War<\/a>\u201d is an adaptation for veterans and military families of Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) trainings by counselor Carolyn Yoder \u201972.<\/p>\n<p>[Read more from Yoder about common realities veterans face and <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2012\/05\/when-soldiers-come-home-from-war\/\">nine suggestions for support<\/a>, as well as veteran Mark Lauro\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/06\/resiliency-after-trauma-of-war\/\">experience<\/a> with STAR ].<\/p>\n<p>Such resources are a strength to draw upon, King says, as the seminary and its faculty move to offer support to this ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one luncheon, I ended up at a table where everyone was a veteran,\u201d King says. \u201cWe had a very good and intense discussion. They said they mostly felt welcomed here, but sometimes they struggled to be sure. At that point, I was increasingly convinced that this ministry was one we could learn more about, as well as support and explore with our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Honoring the &#8216;veteran presence&#8217; in his life<\/h3>\n<p>Matt Stearn certainly thinks so. Stearn grew up in the military-heavy Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia. His father was an Air Force veteran, and several family members worked at the Newport News Shipbuilding yards. Later, many of the members of the Baptist church where he worked were veterans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28284\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/05\/veterans-needs-are-an-area-of-rising-concern-and-an-opportunity-for-learning-and-ministry-at-eastern-mennonite-seminary\/seminary-matt-web-102\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28284\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/Seminary-Matt-WEB-102-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/Seminary-Matt-WEB-102-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/Seminary-Matt-WEB-102.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Stearn speaks about his research into PTSD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of veteran presence in my life,\u201d says Stearn, who recently graduated with Master of Divinity and MBA degrees in April. \u201cHaving seen some of the ill effects of war and how veterans in some ways distance themselves from church made me want to take a closer look. Something happens to you when you have to take another person\u2019s life. It changes people. How do we as a church respond to that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he was raised in the Episcopal Church and later worked as a musician in Disciples of Christ and Baptist congregations, Stearn currently serves as director of music for Harrisonburg Mennonite Church and \u201cdefinitely\u201d considers himself a Mennonite. He says he values the anti-war tradition at the heart of Anabaptism, but it doesn\u2019t need to exclude those who have served in the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really have a theology set up to heal these veterans and provide what they need,\u201d Stearn says. \u201cMennonites are very good in working with the civilian victims of war, but how can we also recognize soldiers as victims? I think most combat veterans agree that war, by nature, is evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His capstone project, titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2016\/04\/06\/seminary-capstone-presentation-matt-stearn\/\">Mennonites and Their Tools: Healing Communities for Combat Veterans<\/a>,\u201d argued that traditional definitions of and treatments for PTSD miss the trauma of \u201cmoral injury,\u201d in which feelings of guilt and shame arise from actions taken during the course of battle. Those actions are often at odds with personal ethics and can create mental and emotional dissonance in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe various treatments for PTSD don\u2019t treat soul issues,\u201d Stearn says. \u201cThey cannot address the moral symptoms of war\u2014only the clinical. Christian moral theology can offer a depth of context that clinical psychology cannot. We must develop a response that is theologically and clinically strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With strength in both of those areas and the reconciliation and peacebuilding expertise of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, EMU is particularly well positioned to be an innovator and meet those needs, Stearn adds.<\/p>\n<h3>Healing and sharing<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28285\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/05\/veterans-needs-are-an-area-of-rising-concern-and-an-opportunity-for-learning-and-ministry-at-eastern-mennonite-seminary\/seminary-veterans-issues-web-103\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28285 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/Seminary-veterans-issues-WEB-103-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Seminary - veterans issues WEB-103\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/Seminary-veterans-issues-WEB-103-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/05\/Seminary-veterans-issues-WEB-103.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Stearn and Darin Bus\u00e9 take questions after their presentations, both focused on veterans issues. The men graduated from Eastern Mennonite Seminary in May 2016 and continue their work in Mennonite and Methodist congregations, respectively.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Darin Bus\u00e9, pastor at Mount Zion United Methodist Church, sees similar potential. Bus\u00e9 joined the US Army at age 19, serving six years supporting and engaging in combat in Honduras, Panama, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Afterward he embarked on a journey as a sous chef, restaurant manager, process engineer and farm manager before realizing a lifelong call to ministry about four years ago, when a friend led him to EMS. He has been a part-time pastor for two years.<\/p>\n<p>On that path, though, his experience on the battlefield\u2014trying to make sense of everything he had seen and done\u2014continued to follow him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe experienced moral injury before it had been defined,\u201d Bus\u00e9 says. \u201cWe didn\u2019t feel like heroes, but we didn\u2019t want to be villains. Many, many veterans isolated themselves\u2014retreating inward or using alcohol or narcotics\u2014and some acted out violently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suicide rate, currently about two dozen a day according to recent statistics, is historically high among veterans. Bus\u00e9 says those figures may underestimate the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tragic,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He found a safe space to deal with his past at EMS, healing himself even as he sought to become one who could bring healing. In his first-year formation class, many of his experiences came up in the sharing, and the group would \u201cunpack\u201d it together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt became clear that I had been trying to make rational, things that were irrational,\u201d Bus\u00e9 says. \u201cIt took framing things in a spiritual context for me to start bringing some order to what I had experienced, but it\u2019s a lifelong process, and community is a huge part of that process. It takes a community that will listen and accept the brokenness and not judge you based on your mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His capstone project, titled \u201cH<a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2016\/04\/06\/seminary-capstone-presentation-darin-buse\/\">uman Wholeness and the Dissociative Effects of Post-Combat Trauma<\/a>,\u201d looked at some of those issues, naming spiritual trauma as another casualty of combat and pondering how one goes from \u201ctransgression to transformation.\u201d Sharing the Good News, being open to veterans\u2019 needs, and listening and offering friendship are ways that congregations can provide the necessary community and spiritual context that may lead to healing.<\/p>\n<p>Self-identifying as a veteran at EMU brought some challenges, Bus\u00e9 says, but also many blessings. He found that Mennonites have \u201can embedded language, a vocabulary, of peace and justice and reconciliation that other churches haven\u2019t really teased out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou navigate through the challenges, utilize the resources and try to keep opening up appropriate spaces for conversation,\u201d he says. \u201cI needed to find healing. EMS has done that for me, so I want to share that with others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Hear a podcast of Matt Stearn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2016\/04\/06\/seminary-capstone-presentation-matt-stearn\/\">presentation<\/a> and Darin Bus\u00e9&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2016\/04\/06\/seminary-capstone-presentation-darin-buse\/\">presentation<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation about the needs and issues facing military veterans has been arising in an unexpected place this year: the halls of Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS). 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