Remembering Dan Berrigan: priest, poet, prophet, antiwar activist, disturber of the peace—and giver of retreats.

I could not help but think: What if these were the images that came to mind when Americans heard Muslim refugees?

Forgiveness, of course, is much more than a feeling. It is a series of small, often painful acts that culminate in a conversion of hearts that creates the very possibility of peace. Queen Elizabeth II put forgiveness into action.

On this day 74 years ago, the United States was drawn into a war—a world war—for the second time in nearly 30 years.

What defense can there be, then, against the awful forces that have now been unleashed with the utter terror of the atomic bomb?

Phil Klay won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his collection of short stories, Redeployment. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called it “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Klay s