What if Jesus really meant what he said?

Rev. Gregory C. Smith, PhD

Rev. Gregory C. Smith, PhD, is a retired pastor and disaster spiritual care provider with the American Red Cross. He writes about moral injury, caregiving, disaster response, and faith after catastrophe, and is the author of multiple works connected to The Moral Injury Project with Wipf and Stock Publishers.


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.