The Moral Injury Project

A place for language, reflection, and honest engagement with what remains after impossible decisions, unresolved responsibility, and the moral cost of service.

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Books

Moral injury is not simply stress, burnout, or exhaustion.

It is the deeper wound that comes when conscience is violated by what someone has done, witnessed, could not prevent, or had done to them. It requires truth, witness, and space to reckon with what cannot be easily undone.

This work is for those carrying moral weight.

Written especially for people who carry the cost of service, leadership, care, and difficult decisions.

Disaster responders

Clergy and chaplains

Spiritual care providers

Healthcare and care professionals

Public servants

Nonprofit leaders

Anyone carrying unresolved moral weight

What you’ll find here.

1.

Books

Work exploring moral injury through narrative, theology, and lived experience.

2.

Training

Workshops and conversations for organizations seeking language and tools.

3.

Resources

Frameworks and field-informed materials for responding with care and dignity.

People need more than strategies to cope. They need language. They need witness.

This project brings together disaster response, pastoral care, public theology, and lived experience to name these realities truthfully.

Training & Speaking

For groups carrying responsibility under pressure.

Keynotes, workshops, retreats, and conversations for clergy, responders, care teams, institutions, and communities learning how to name moral injury.

Training, speaking, and collaboration.

The Moral Injury Project offers presentations, workshops, and conversations for organizations and communities navigating the realities of moral injury in their work.

Topics include moral injury in disaster response, spiritual care after moral rupture, recognizing signs of moral injury in the field, and sustaining humanity in helping professions.

60–90 minute keynote presentations
Half-day or full-day workshops
Multi-session training series
In-person or virtual formats

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Rev. Gregory C. Smith, PhD

Rev. Gregory C. Smith, PhD, is a pastor, author, and leader in disaster spiritual care with decades of experience accompanying individuals and communities in the aftermath of crisis.

He has served with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance since 2011 and as a spiritual care specialist since 2015, supporting local responses, national deployments, responder care, and disaster spiritual care training.

His writing brings together theology, narrative, and field experience to explore moral injury as it is actually lived by responders, survivors, clergy, and those navigating the cost of service.

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There is no simple resolution here, but there is language, witness, and the possibility of something honest and human emerging in its place.

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