Moral injury can be understood, in large part, as an experience of profound loss and grief with individual and systemic consequences. Through that lens, the author draws on several composite vignettes of veterans and their families situated in faith communities to explore the range of losses that is often entailed in an experience of moral injury and possible characteristics of grief arising from such personal, lifelong, relational, and generational loss. She also pursues the relevance and usefulness of theoretical concepts regarding grief such as ambiguous loss and resilience for understanding and responding to those affected by moral injury and their relational systems. The author also addresses theoretical frames such as intersectionality to illumine how contextual complexities of identity such as race and gender inform our understanding and strategies for responding to grief associated with moral injury. In addition to these theoretical resources, she draws on theological perspectives that are helpful in the face of radical, dehumanizing evil such as forms of lament and the relation between protest and hope. In particular, she explores the value of ritual for practices of care as resources for healing, both for veterans and their families affected by moral injury and for faith communities who may come to recognize their own complicity in moral injury. She also briefly considers the possibilities of public rituals for bearing witness to communal aspects of responsibility in moral injury. The author draws on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim resources for practices of ritual care.

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Beginning with a series of questions designed to peak reader curiosity and expose key challenges for mid-career faculty, the authors uncover several issues in post-tenure faculty life and work, and they reflect on images for understanding and responding to these challenges. Topics identified include midcareer as an opportunity for deeper investment in one's teaching, challenges associated with competing claims for time, shifts in research that can accompany the transition to mid-career, challenges in dealing with an increasing generational gap between oneself and one's students, responsibilities associated with being a longerterm member of a faculty, and feelings of fatigue and occasional alienation from one's educational institution and/or church.

Develops an ethic for ministries of care and counseling grounded in a scriptural and theological perspective which stresses the empowering love of God and the real possibilities of human love for one another. Argues that such a scriptural and theological framework holds special power in the recovery from child sexual abuse. Proposes and explicates the notion of “compassionate resistance” and how it can serve as a dynamic witness for sexual abuse survivors.

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