Soul Repair

Episode 6

Soul Repair: After Moral Injury is hosted by Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. And is produced by Studio D Podcast Production.
Episode 6: Soul Repair: Finding Goodness in Each Other
This final episode in our series provides a call to action for all of us to do soul repair work. Rita and Susan are joined by their friend Kyle Fauntleroy, a former Navy chaplain who retired after a distinguished thirty-year career. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss how understanding moral injury is a call to spiritual and religious leaders, their communities, and to all who seek to alleviate suffering and repair souls.
Hosts:
Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs at Volunteers of America (VOA) and a Commissioned Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Capital Region. She is a former professor and academic administrator and co- author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War. An online, one-hour moral distress-relief program at VOA is open to the public at www.voa.org/rest.
Rev. Susan Ward Diamond, D.Min., is Lead Pastor of Florence Christian Church, Florence, KY, and was ordained as a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1990. She has served on a number of boards and leadership roles in the denomination, including moderator of the church. She is author of The Daily Grind:  GOD with Your Coffee. Her daily blog, “Thoughts for the Day,” can be found at pastorsusantftd.wordpress.com.
Guest:
Captain W. Kyle Fauntleroy, M.Div., M.A., is Director of Development at Brite Divinity School at TCU, and a retired Chaplain of the U.S. Navy, where, among his many assignments, he directed the Navy Chaplaincy School and Center and served as Command Chaplain of the Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Resources:
The Soul Repair Center Webinars
For online Moral Distress Relief: www.voa.org/rest.
Soul Repair: After Moral Injury is hosted by Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. And is produced by Studio D Podcast Production.
How You Can Help Us Grow
We want to see more and more of you join us on Soul Repair: After Moral Injury. To help us do that, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
And if you think the episode would be helpful to someone else please share it. The number one way people learn about a new podcast is through word-of-mouth. Invite a friend to join us on this journey uncovering moral injury.
Volunteers of America
If Uncovering Moral Injury has piqued your interest, head over to Volunteers of America at voa.org/moralinjury. There you’ll find resources, conferences and events as well as other ways to connect with the Shay Moral Injury Center.
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Episode 5

Soul Repair: After Moral Injury is hosted by Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. And is produced by Studio D Podcast Production.
Episode 5: Our Rescuers in Times of Trouble: First Responders and Soul Repair
When danger and emergencies threaten lives, we depend on first responders for help. In this episode, Rita and Susan explore with their guests, the impact of such high stakes, often dangerous work and the moral cost of failure and exhaustion. They also assess the legal and cultural barriers involved in first responders finding support and solutions that chaplains and other spiritual care providers can offer to repair the souls of those who dedicate themselves to our safety and to saving lives.
Hosts:
Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs at Volunteers of America (VOA) and a Commissioned Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Capital Region. She is a former professor and academic administrator and co- author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War. An online, one-hour moral distress-relief program at VOA is open to the public at www.voa.org/rest.
Rev. Susan Ward Diamond, D.Min., is Lead Pastor of Florence Christian Church, Florence, KY, and was ordained as a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1990. She has served on a number of boards and leadership roles in the denomination, including moderator of the church. She is author of The Daily Grind:  GOD with Your Coffee. Her daily blog, “Thoughts for the Day,” can be found at pastorsusantftd.wordpress.com.
Guests:
Mr. J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA, is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation
Chaplain Michael A. Shochet, MSM, is Chaplain Coordinator, Fairfax County Police Department, Fairfax VA, and Senior Cantor, Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, VA
Rev. Ann Kansfield, M.Div., is Pastor of Greenpoint Reformed Church and Chaplain in the Fire Department of New York City
Resources:
Ann Kansfield, Be the Brave One: Living Your Spiritual Values Out Loud and Other Life Lessons, Broadleaf Books, 2021.
The Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation,www.drlornabreen.org
For online Moral Distress Relief: www.voa.org/rest.
Soul Repair: After Moral Injury is hosted by Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. And is produced by Studio D Podcast Production.
How You Can Help Us Grow
We want to see more and more of you join us on Soul Repair: After Moral Injury. To help us do that, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
And if you think the episode would be helpful to someone else please share it. The number one way people learn about a new podcast is through word-of-mouth. Invite a friend to join us on this journey uncovering moral injury.
Volunteers of America
If Uncovering Moral Injury has piqued your interest, head over to Volunteers of America at voa.org/moralinjury. There you’ll find resources, conferences and events as well as other ways to connect with the Shay Moral Injury Center.
Newsletter
Looking to get further connected? Subscribe to our newsletter that is linked in the show notes to get monthly updates about new resources, events and the work of the Shay Moral Injury Center.

Episode 4

Soul Repair: After Moral Injury is hosted by Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. And is produced by Studio D Podcast Production.
Episode 4 Show Notes: Moral Courage in the Face of War and Oppression
Guests for this episode share how moral injury helped focus their understandings of family legacies of war and violence; how it gave them a way to speak of their own combat experience; and how it enabled them to understand their struggle with racist systems as part of recovery.  They describe how identifying moral injury enabled them to see it as a call to moral courage for all who care about a just and peaceful world.
Hosts:
Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs at Volunteers of America (VOA) and a Commissioned Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Capital Region. She is a former professor and academic administrator and co- author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War. An online, one-hour moral distress-relief program at VOA is open to the public at www.voa.org/rest.
Rev. Susan Ward Diamond, D.Min., is Lead Pastor of Florence Christian Church, Florence, KY, and was ordained as a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1990. She has served on a number of boards and leadership roles in the denomination, including moderator of the church. She is author of The Daily Grind:  GOD with Your Coffee. Her daily blog, “Thoughts for the Day,” can be found at pastorsusantftd.wordpress.com.
Guests:
Dr. Eyal Press is a journalist, sociologist, and author of Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Dr. Yuri Yamamoto, is a healthcare chaplain, musician, and Christian minister and a former geneticist and church music director
Rev. Dr. Michael Yandell is a U.S. Army combat veteran, theologian, and senior minister of First Christian Church, Greensboro, NC
Resources:
Eyal Press, Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, Farrar, Straus,&  Giroux, 2021.
Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times, Farrar, Straus,&  Giroux, 2012.
Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America, MacMillan 2006
Yuri Yamamoto, Chandra Snell & Tim Hanami, eds. Unitarian Universalists of Color: Stories of Struggle, Courage, Love and Faith, Lulu Publishing Services, 2017
Michael Yandell, War and Negative Revelation: A Theoethical Reflection on Moral Injury, Rowan and Littlefield, 2022.
For online Moral Distress Relief: www.voa.org/rest.
How You Can Help Us Grow
We want to see more and more of you join us on Soul Repair: After Moral Injury. To help us do that, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
And if you think the episode would be helpful to someone else please share it. The number one way people learn about a new podcast is through word-of-mouth. Invite a friend to join us on this journey uncovering moral injury.
Volunteers of America
If Uncovering Moral Injury has piqued your interest, head over to Volunteers of America at voa.org/moralinjury. There you’ll find resources, conferences and events as well as other ways to connect with the Shay Moral Injury Center.
Newsletter
Looking to get further connected? Subscribe to our newsletter that is linked in the show notes to get monthly updates about new resources, events and the work of the Shay Moral Injury Center.

Episode 3

Soul Repair: After Moral Injury is hosted by Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. And is produced by Studio D Podcast Production.
Episode 3: When Patients Seem Like Enemies: The Moral Struggles of Healthcare Workers
Four healthcare professionals join hosts Rita and Susan to tell their stories of moral injury and how they coped with trying to save lives in dangerous conditions while worrying about themselves and those they love. With rare and moving honesty, they speak of how crushing it was to survive and cope with feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, desperation, emptiness, grief, outrage, exhaustion, and a loss of faith. They also share what enabled them to keep offering the best care they could and to recover.
Hosts:
Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs at Volunteers of America (VOA) and a Commissioned Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Capital Region. She is a former professor and academic administrator and co- author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War. An online, one-hour moral distress-relief program at VOA is open to the public at www.voa.org/rest.
Rev. Susan Ward Diamond, D.Min., is Lead Pastor of Florence Christian Church, Florence, KY, and was ordained as a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1990. She has served on a number of boards and leadership roles in the denomination, including moderator of the church. She is author of The Daily Grind:  GOD with Your Coffee. Her daily blog, “Thoughts for the Day,” can be found at pastorsusantftd.wordpress.com.
Guests:
Ms. Jennifer Clark, Physician’s Assistant and U.S. Air Force combat veteran
Ms. Melanie Pass Park, Emergency Room Nurse Administrator
Ms. Joanne Samuels, Thoracic Intensive Care Nurse
Ms. Stephanie Tewes, Physical Therapist
Resources:
Hidaya Aliouche, "Moral Injury in Healthcare." News-Medical. 06 March 2023.
Jennifer Clark, 166 Days: My Journey Through the Darkness, Outskirts Press, 2013.
For online Moral Distress Relief: www.voa.org/rest or www.rest4firstresponders.com.
How You Can Help Us Grow
We want to see more and more of you join us on Soul Repair: After Moral Injury. To help us do that, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
And if you think the episode would be helpful to someone else please share it. The number one way people learn about a new podcast is through word-of-mouth. Invite a friend to join us on this journey uncovering moral injury.
Volunteers of America
If Uncovering Moral Injury has piqued your interest, head over to Volunteers of America at voa.org/moralinjury. There you’ll find resources, conferences and events as well as other ways to connect with the Shay Moral Injury Center.
Newsletter
Looking to get further connected? Subscribe to our newsletter that is linked in the show notes to get monthly updates about new resources, events and the work of the Shay Moral Injury Center.

Episode 2

Soul Repair: After Moral Injury is hosted by Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. And is produced by Studio D Podcast Production.
Episode 2: A Pandemic, Hate-Crimes, Murders, and an Insurrection: Have We All Got Moral Injury Now?
Continuing the conversation begun in Episode 1 with their four guests, hosts Rita and Susan invite them to reflect on how the multiple catastrophes since January 2020 have led to new, far-reaching applications of moral injury well beyond the impact of war on veterans. They explore the richness of the term and its power in focusing on suffering that needs addressing, and they also raise cautions about dilutions of its meaning from overuse or misapplications of it.
Hosts:
Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs at Volunteers of America (VOA) and a Commissioned Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Capital Region. She is a former professor and academic administrator and co- author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War. An online, one-hour moral distress-relief program at VOA is open to the public at www.voa.org/rest.
Rev. Susan Ward Diamond, D.Min., is Lead Pastor of Florence Christian Church, Florence, KY, and was ordained as a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1990. She has served on a number of boards and leadership roles in the denomination, including moderator of the church. She is author of The Daily Grind:  GOD with Your Coffee. Her daily blog, “Thoughts for the Day,” can be found at pastorsusantftd.wordpress.com.
Guests:
Dr. Aristotle Papanikolau, Professor of Theology and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University
Dr. Brian Powers, U.S. Air Force war veteran and Assistant Professor, Vann Fellow in Christianity and the Armed Forces, and Executive Director of the International Centre for Moral Injury at Durham University, UK
Rabbi Nancy Wiener, Founding Director of the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling; Dr. Paul and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professor in Human Relations at Hebrew Union College and Jewish Institute of Religion
Dr. Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, Senior Research Analyst, The Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center and formerly Lecturer in Religion and Assistant Director, Center for Principled Problem Solving and Excellence in Teaching at Guilford College
Resources:
Elizabeth Svboda, “Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions,” Scientific American, 09/19/2022.
For online Moral Distress Relief: www.voa.org/rest.
How You Can Help Us Grow
We want to see more and more of you join us on Soul Repair: After Moral Injury. To help us do that, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
And if you think the episode would be helpful to someone else please share it. The number one way people learn about a new podcast is through word-of-mouth. Invite a friend to join us on this journey uncovering moral injury.
Volunteers of America
If Uncovering Moral Injury has piqued your interest, head over to Volunteers of America at voa.org/moralinjury. There you’ll find resources, conferences and events as well as other ways to connect with the Shay Moral Injury Center.
Newsletter
Looking to get further connected? Subscribe to our newsletter that is linked in the show notes to get monthly updates about new resources, events and the work of the Shay Moral Injury Center.

Episode 1

Soul Repair: After Moral Injury is hosted by Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. And is produced by Studio D Podcast Production.
Episode 1: What Is Moral Injury?
What makes love possible and sustainable when we face shattering loss, horror, betrayal, and brokenness? In this episode, we begin our exploration into moral injury as rooted in human goodness. Experts in religion and philosophy join hosts Rita and Susan to consider what makes moral injury so crucial for today's spiritual leaders to understand and what we can learn about the repair of souls on the journey through the worst challenges we face in life.
Hosts:
Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs at Volunteers of America (VOA) and a Commissioned Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Capital Region. She is a former professor and academic administrator and co- author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War. An online, one-hour moral distress-relief program at VOA is open to the public at www.voa.org/rest.
Rev. Susan Ward Diamond, D.Min., is Lead Pastor of Florence Christian Church, Florence, KY, and was ordained as a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1990. She has served on a number of boards and leadership roles in the denomination, including moderator of the church. She is author of The Daily Grind:  GOD with Your Coffee. Her daily blog, “Thoughts for the Day,” can be found at pastorsusantftd.wordpress.com.
Guests:
Dr. Aristotle Papanikolau, Professor of Theology and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University
Rev. Dr. Brian Powers, U.S. Air Force veteran and Assistant Professor, Vann Fellow in Christianity and the Armed Forces, and Executive Director of the International Centre for Moral Injury at Durham University, UK
Rabbi Nancy Wiener, Founding Director of the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling; Dr. Paul and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professor in Human Relations at Hebrew Union College and Jewish Institute of Religion
Dr. Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, Senior Research Analyst, The Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center and former Lecturer in Religion and Assistant Director, Center for Principled Problem Solving and Excellence in Teaching at Guilford College
Resources:
Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini, Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War, Beacon 2012.
Kim Geringer and Nancy Wiener, “Insights into Moral Injury and Soul Repair from Classical Jewish Texts,” Journal of Pastoral Psychology, 2019/02/01.
Brett Litz, et. al., 2009. Moral injury and moral repair in war veterans: A preliminary model and intervention strategy. Clinical Psychology Review 29, 695–706, p. 695.
Aristotle Papanikolaou, “What Is Moral about Moral Injury? A Virtue Approach, in Moral Injury and Beyond: Understanding Human Anguish and Healing Traumatic Wounds, ed. Renos Papadopoulous, Routledge, 2020.
Brian Powers, Full Darkness: Moral Injury, Original Sin, and Wartime Violence, Eerdmans, 2019.
Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Unmaking of Character. Athenaeum Press, 1994.
Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue, Palgrave McMillan, 2019.
For online Moral Distress Relief: www.voa.org/rest.
How You Can Help Us Grow
We want to see more and more of you join us on Soul Repair: After Moral Injury. To help us do that, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
And if you think the episode would be helpful to someone else please share it. The number one way people learn about a new podcast is through word-of-mouth. Invite a friend to join us on this journey uncovering moral injury.
Volunteers of America
If Uncovering Moral Injury has piqued your interest, head over to Volunteers of America at voa.org/moralinjury. There you’ll find resources, conferences and events as well as other ways to connect with the Shay Moral Injury Center.
Newsletter
Looking to get further connected? Subscribe to our newsletter that is linked in the show notes to get monthly updates about new resources, events and the work of the Shay Moral Injury Center.

Soul Repair: After Moral Injury (Trailer)

This is Soul Repair: After Moral Injury. Where Dr. Susan Diamond and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock bring to light a misunderstood trauma. 
In each episode, we will walk together through the labyrinth that is Moral Injury, which is our human reaction to harm. Join us as we seek pathways to bring light, healing, and peace into the labyrinth journey of Soul Repair: After Moral Injury.