Theological Injury explores the hidden spiritual wounds that occur when suffering, betrayal, unanswered prayer, moral conflict, disaster, or profound disappointment disrupt a person's understanding of God, faith, and the world. While much has been written about trauma, burnout, and moral injury, less attention has been given to the injury that occurs when the beliefs that once sustained people are shaken. This book names that experience, examines its causes, and offers a framework for unde...

What Remains: Preparing the Soul for Retirement explores retirement not simply as the end of employment but as a profound human and spiritual transition. Many people enter retirement carrying unresolved questions about identity, usefulness, purpose, loss, aging, and what remains after decades of responsibility and service. This book invites readers to reflect honestly on those questions with compassion, humility, and hope. Drawing from years of pastoral ministry, disaster response, caregiv...

The point and purpose of Faith Without Explanations: What Disaster Work Taught Me About God is to explore what happens to faith when people spend prolonged time near catastrophe, grief, helplessness, and human suffering that cannot be explained away. Drawing from years of disaster spiritual care and ministry experience, the book challenges simplistic religious answers and examines how disaster work often wounds theology before it wounds emotional functioning. Rather than attempting to defe...

The autobiography of Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal, is as exciting, varied and adventurous as the epic life that he led. He joined the British army in the 1st battalion of the 95th Rifles, whose dark green uniform he was proud to wear and despite an inauspicious posting along with the disastrous expedition to Montevideo in 1807 his talents began to emerge. These talents were to be brought to bear on three other continents in the service of the British.A contemporary of, and...

Offended by Grace: Moral Injury and the Disruption of Mercy explores the hidden relationship between moral injury and the struggle to embrace forgiveness, compassion, and reconciliation. Drawing on years of experience in pastoral ministry, disaster response, and spiritual care, G. C. Smith argues that moral injury is not only a wound to conscience but also a wound to our capacity for mercy. Betrayal, trauma, institutional failure, and profound disappointment can leave people convinced that...

Mudbug Tales, A Novel In Flashes, wit' RecipesThe vignettes that follow tell, in Cajun dialect, the stories of the wonderful people who populate a piece of Acadiana, in South Louisiana. They are fictions set in the imaginary town of Pigeonaire on the real Bayou Teche. The book is in two parts, first the stories of the Acadiana folk, the Cajuns, told in flashes that combined transform the individual stories to a novel about life in the Bayou country. The rest of the book is the reci...

After the Gunfire: Moral Injury in the Wake of a Mass Shooting explores the emotional, spiritual, and moral aftermath that follows acts of public violence. Drawing from pastoral care, disaster response, and years of accompanying people through catastrophe, G. C. Smith examines how mass shootings wound not only bodies and communities but also trust, meaning, faith, and the human conscience itself. The book focuses on survivors, families, responders, clergy, healthcare workers, educators, an...

The Moral Injury Handbook: Theory, Care, and Repair in Public and Faith Contexts brings together current scholarship, clinical insight, theological reflection, and decades of experience in ministry and disaster response to offer a comprehensive, interdisciplinary resource. The book explains what moral injury is, how it differs from burnout and trauma, why it develops, and how individuals, organizations, and communities can foster moral repair. Written for practitioners, caregivers, educato...

When the Church Wounds: Moral Injury, Confession, and the Work of Repair examines the hidden spiritual and moral damage that occurs when churches, pastors, and religious institutions become sources of betrayal rather than places of healing. Drawing from pastoral experience, disaster spiritual care, theology, and lived stories, the book explores how moral injury develops when people are forced to carry the weight of silence, institutional protection, spiritual manipulation, exclusion, or un...

Drawing on themes of moral injury, grief, and disrupted faith, G. C. Smith offers a pastoral and theological framework for preaching that remains faithful to Scripture while attentive to the lived realities of wounded communities. Each chapter encourages proclamation that holds together truth and compassion, justice and mercy, silence and speech.This book argues that preaching in a wounded world is not about fixing what is broken but about standing within it—naming loss, honoring s...

Beyond Burnout: A Clergy Care Handbook for Moral Injury and Faithful Discernment addresses a growing reality in ministry: many pastors are not simply exhausted. They are morally strained, spiritually conflicted, and carrying institutional pressures that rest alone cannot resolve.This book argues that burnout language is too narrow to describe what clergy are experiencing. Moral injury more accurately names the wound that forms when conscience, calling, and institutional de...

Instrument of Peace invites readers to move beyond reciting a beloved prayer into embodying it in daily life. In a world marked by division, violence, and moral strain, this book explores what it means to become a bearer of peace when peace feels fragile or absent. Drawing from real-world experiences--especially in contexts of disaster, suffering, and human conflict--the book reframes the Prayer of St. Francis not as idealistic poetry but as a demanding, lived practice. Each line becomes a...