Ed Van Herrick is a master student in the religious holidays program who spoke about his thesis research that he will present at the American Academy of Religion Conference. He talked about how the Twelve Steps program, used to treat in alcoholics can be beneficial to the moral injury in soldiers. When soldiers return home, they are often paralyzed from something they saw or did, and they can’t deal with their conscience. They have an inability to function well, so the Army is trying to restore them to functioning. Project Match was researching different methods of helping alcoholism and the Twelve Steps, which incorporates some use of a higher power, showed favorable outcome. Alcoholics Anonymous, which uses the program, states that their
