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Video on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
Watch Brian Powers and Michael Yandell discuss Odysseus as a morally injured war veteran
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) puts a morally injured Odysseus on screen; in this video Brian Powers and Michael Yandell discuss what it has to say about modern war, the ethical issues at stake, and the way in which those who've been affected by it wrestle with them.
Brian Powers is the Executive Director of the International Centre for Moral Injury at Durham University. He is a systematic theologian, a former US Air Force Special Operations Weather Team officer, a veteran of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the author of Full Darkness: Original Sin, Moral Injury and Wartime Violence (Eerdmans, 2019).
Michael Yandell is the Director of the Soul Repair Centre at Brite Divinity School. He is a theologian whose work on moral injury is rooted in his experiences as an EOD (bomb disposal) specialist in the US Army in Iraq. He is the author of War and Negative Revelation: A Theoethical Reflection on Moral Injury (Lexington Books, 2022).