Over the past couple of years since I was in Iraq, the drums of war have died down and the desperate cries of lonely survivors have rippled across the globe. And in these raw moments of pain, I have seen so many signs of hope that history will not again repeat itself with more precious blood shed. Nearly every denomination in the World Council of Churches declared that the war in Iraq was not God’s will and not in line with any Christian tradition, including just-war theory.
