CONTENTS
Moral Injury
Mass Incarceration & Clemency
Healing & Repair
Healthcare
Spirituality and Spiritual Disciplines for Leadership
1. Moral Injury
Books
Brock, Rita Nakashima and Gabriella Lettini (2012). Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War. Beacon Press.
Brock, Rita Nakashima and Rebecca Ann Parker (2002). Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us. Beacon Press.
Papadopoulos, Renos K., ed. (2020). Moral Injury and Beyond: Understanding Human Anguish and Healing Traumatic Wounds (1st ed.). Routledge.
Kelle, Brad E., ed. (2020). Moral Injury: A Guidebook for Understanding and Engagement. Lexington Books.
Evans, W. R., R. D. Walser, K. D. Drescher, and J. K. Farnsworth (2020). The Moral Injury Workbook: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills for Moving Beyond Shame, Anger, and Trauma to Reclaim Your Values. New Harbinger Publications.
Rushton, Cynda Hylton, ed. (2018). Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare. Oxford University Press.
Lipsky, Laura van Dernoot and Connie Burke (2009). Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Articles
Braxton, Joanne M., Eric M. Busse and Cynda H. Rushton. “Mapping the Terrain of Moral Suffering: Notes on Naming Harm and Healing Invisible Wounds.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Rushton, Cynda H., Kathleen Turner, Rita Nakashima Brock, and Joanne M. Braxton (2021). “Invisible Moral Wounds of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are We Experiencing Moral Injury?” AACN Advanced Critical Care - Ethics in Critical Care
Lettini, Gabriella (2013).“Engaging the Moral Injuries of War: A Call to Spiritual Leaders.” Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry
Norman, Sonya B. and Shira Maguen. “Moral Injury.” PTSD: National Center for PTSD
Nash, Bill (2020). “Guest Perspective: Because We Care - Risk for Moral Injury During the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Center for Deployment Psychology
Harwood-Gross, Anna (2020). “Treating ‘Moral’ Injuries.” Scientific American
Jacobs, Andrew (2021). “A Parallel Pandemic Hits Health Care Workers: Trauma and Exhaustion.” The New York Times
“Nurses caring for Covid-19 patients are at high risk for moral injury due to betrayal by health care employers and public health and safety agencies.” National Nurses United
Drescher, Kent D., Jason A. Nieuwsma, and Pamela J. Swales (2013). “Morality and Moral Injury: Insights from Theology and Health Science.” Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry
Talbot, Simon G. and Wendy Dean (2018). “Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ They’re suffering from moral injury.” STAT
Janssen, Scott. “Moral Injury in Health Care and COVID-19.” Social Work Today
Ramsay, Nancy J. (2019). “Moral Injury as Loss and Grief with Attention to Ritual Resources for Care.” Pastoral Psychology
Video
Shay Moral Injury Center/Volunteers of America Northern California: Understanding Moral Injury- What Can We Do?
2. Mass Incarceration & Clemency
Articles
Hatton, Nigel (2018). “California, the Beautiful, Or, Why the Killing and Incarceration of African Americans Won’t Budge the Ballot.” the A-Line
Barkow, Rachel E. and Mark Osler (2021). “Opinion: We Know How to Fix the Clemency Process. So Why Don’t We?” The New York Times
Osler, Mark (2019). “Taking the grim truth about clemency behind bars.” Waco Tribune-Herald
Osler, Mark and Mark W. Bennett (2014). “A ‘Holocaust in Slow Motion?’: America's Mass Incarceration and the Role of Discretion.” DePaul Journal for Social Justice
Barkow, Rachel E. and Mark Osler. “Restructuring Clemency: The Cost of Ignoring Clemency and a Plan for Renewal.” The University of Chicago Law Review
Barkow, Rachel E. and Mark Osler (2021). “14 Steps Biden’s DOJ Can Take Now to Reform America’s Criminal Legal System.” The Appeal
Taifa, Nkechi and Catherine Beane. “Integrative Solutions to Interrelated Issues: A Multidisciplinary Look Behind the Cycle of Incarceration.” Harvard Law and Policy Review
3. Healing & Repair
Books
Dixon, Ejeris & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, ed. (2020). Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. AK Press.
Zehr, Howard (2015). The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Good Books.
Degruy, Joy (2017). Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing. Joy Degruy Publications Inc.
Douglas, Kelly Brown (2015). Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. Orbis Books.
Articles
Bernard, Diane (2021). “A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal.” The Washington Post
“Restorative Justice for Lakeland.” Lakeland Community Heritage Project
Taifa, Nkechi. “Let’s Talk About Reparations.” Columbia Journal of Race and Law
Taifa, Nkechi (2020). “Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?” ACLU
Douglas, Kelly Brown (2020). “A Christian Call for Reparations.” Sojourners
“‘Why We Can’t Wait.’” National African-American Reparations Commission
Irazábal-Zurita, Clara, and Hannah Moore Cameron, Scenario Planning for Restorative Justice in Lakeland, URSP 708 - Community Planning Studio, University of Maryland - College Park, Fall 2022.
Braxton, J. “Symbolic Geography and Psychic Landscapes: Decoding the Hegemonic Discourse of Urban Renewal in the Case of Billy Weems” vs. the City of College Park” in Keep Your Head to the Sky: Reinterpreting African-American Homeground (Gundaker, ed., 1998).
Videos
Shallenberger Lecture: On the Outrage of Black Mothers - Healing the Past in the Present presented by Rev. Joanne M. Braxton, PhD
Smithsonian Folklife: Healing Faith: From Lamentation to Transformation with Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton, Rev. Joanne M. Braxton, PhD and Angela E. Oh
Lakeland Community Heritage Project: Restorative Justice for Lakeland
4. Healthcare
Books
Townes, Emily M. (2006). Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health Issues and a Womanist Ethic of Care. Wipf & Stock Publishers.
Meza, James P. and Daniel S. Passerman (2011). Integrating Narrative Medicine and Evidence Based Medicine: The Everyday Social Practice of Healing. CRC Press.
Articles
Howley, Lisa, Elizabeth Gaufberg and Brandy King (2020). “The Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education.” Association of American Medical Colleges
Braxton, Joanne M. (2020). “Covid-19 Unevenly ‘Culls’ Humanity.” Sojourners
Hatton, Nigel (2020). “For the 401st Time: Dr. Therman Evans' ‘On the Health of Black Americans’.” University of California, Merced
Hensley, Travis (2017). “At the Crossroads of Health and Spirituality: An Interview with Joanne Braxton.” Library of Congress - Insights: Scholarly Work at the John W. Kluge Center
5. Spirituality and Spiritual Disciplines for Leadership
Books
Brock, Rita Nakashima and Rebecca Ann Parker (2009). Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire. Beacon Press.