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.

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