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When Trauma Wounds: Pathways to Healing and Hope
In When Trauma Wounds, psychologist Karen A. McClintock combines psychological approaches with faith resources to improve trauma recovery. Whether you have experienced trauma or are a caregiving pastor, church member, or friend to a survivor, this book will familiarize you with trauma symptoms and healing strategies.
McClintock shows readers how to create a sanctuary to shelter a wounded soul. She helps trauma survivors find acceptance, hope, and healing.
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Empowering Couples: A Narrative Approach to Spiritual Care
This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations.
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Maps and Meaning: Levitical Models for Contemporary Care
Drawing on contemporary explorations of stigma, the authors of Maps and Meaning raise communal questions related to healthcare, returning veterans, and incarcerated people. They propose a societal approach that embraces the inevitability of life's ebbs and flow and that draws maps to facilitate these journeys.
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Becoming an Anti-Racist Church: Journeying toward Wholeness
Martin Luther King's observation that 11 a.m. on Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week remains all too true. Christians addressing racism in American...
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Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual
Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies...
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Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod: A Conflict That Changed American Christianity
Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod follows the rise of two Lutheran clergymen-Herman Otten and J. A. O. Preus-who led different wings of a...
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The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching
African American congregations have long been celebrated as a locus for powerful, prophetic preaching, but at its best they have also embraced a strong pastoral...
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Redeeming Fear: A Constructive Theology for Living into Hope
In this book, Whitehead helps us find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of a culture of fear.
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Preaching Must Die!: Troubling Homiletical Theology
The real question for homiletics in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian contexts is not how we are going to prevent preaching from dying, but how we...
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Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and Congregational Life
Ronald W. Richardson helps us to understand how congregations function emotionally. Without being simplistic, he gives clear directions on how to improve...
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Transforming Leadership: New Vision for a Church in Mission
Transforming Leadership sets forth the core values and leadership practices that can bring fundamental transformation to the life of the local church. Based on...
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Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches
Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities...
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Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry
The experience of grief has been a source of intrigue and curiosity throughout history, and it continues to stimulate thought and theory in various fields of...
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Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community
We live in a leadership crisis. "In an age when incompatible worlds collide and when scandals rock formerly stable institutions," says Walter Fluker,...
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Competency-Based Counseling: Building on Client Strengths
This book demonstrates how counselors can help people to use the resources they already have so they can address issues that come up in life. The authors...
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Pastoral Care Emergencies
David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative and practical manual for pastoral caregivers that covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies...
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Domestic Violence: What Every Pastor Needs to Know: Second Edition
According to the American Medical Association, one quarter of American women will be abused by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. Loving support...
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Kairos Preaching: Speaking Gospel to the Situation
Sometimes lectionary preachers struggle when situations present themselves in parish life. A congregational member dies, two lives are joined in marriage, a...
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Pastoral Care of Alcohol Abusers
Over 120 million American teens and adults use alcohol at one time or another. While in most situations these individuals are able to use it responsibly and...
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Clergy Burnout: Recovering from the 70-Hour Week...and Other Self-Defeating Practices
In this highly accessible book, Fred Lehr clarifies the nature and practice of clergy codependence. In short, insightful, and highly readable chapters, filled...
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