Make the Connection is an online resource designed to connect veterans, their family members and friends, and other supporters with information, resources, and solutions to issues affecting their health, well-being, and everyday lives. Hear honest and candid descriptions from veterans of what life was like for them with PTSD. A variety of veterans-men and women, younger […]
KSHB’s short segment highlights the struggles of moral injury through Kansas City veteran Ted John, a retired U.S. Marine.
VETERANS JOURNEY HOME: FAITH, HOPE & WAR, a CBS Interfaith Special, looks at the unique challenges faced by male and female veterans as they transition to civilian life. This special broadcast features the work of organizations like the Soul Repair Center that are focused on moral injury. Click here to watch the video on CBS’s website.
Milites Christi, a student group at Duke Divinity School in Durham, NC, convened the conference After the Yellow Ribbon in 2012 in order to “develop tools that church, military and academic communities can use in order to approach service members and veterans as human beings, and to understand and heal the unseen wounds of war (including PTSD and moral injury).” With the help of Centurions Guild, the audio of the conference presentations is available on soundcloud.
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly‘s Extended Interview with Jonathan Shay. Jonathan Shay is a clinical psychiatrist whose treatment of combat trauma suffered by Vietnam veterans combined with his critical and imaginative interpretations of the ancient accounts of battle described in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are deepening our understanding of the effects of warfare on the individual. Moral Wounds of War: […]
This podcast from God Complex Radio features Amy Blumenshine, one of the authors of “Welcome Them Home, Help Them Heal: Pastoral Care and Ministry with Service Members Returning From War”.
AfterDeployment.org is a wellness resource focused on helping service members, their families, and veterans with common post-deployment problems. The Web site provides self-care solutions targeting Post-Traumatic Stress, depression, anger, and spirituality issues.
Two years ago, Larry Malone and Terry Smith began working together, helping persons discovery truth hidden within their own story, and building a friendship triad with God, another and self. In a discovery process that understands life within our story, we begin by learning how to befriend ourself, providing our soul what it needs to breathe, renew and heal. We build soul care skills in stillness, where we gain capacity to receive Love, heal, and gain hope.
“Care for Returning Veterans” is a daylong workshop developed by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) for use in congregations, synods and other ministry settings. The workshop includes a multimedia presentation that deals with “the veteran’s experience” — psychological impacts, moral impacts, spiritual impacts, family impacts, and referrals and resources.