Fortress Press

Psalms for Healing: Praying with Those in Need

Gretchen Person (Author)

Comfort patients, family, and caregivers with the beauty of the Psalms. When Rev. Person worked as a chaplain in a Mayo hospital, patients frequently asked her to read psalms and pray with them.

Reframing: A New Method in Pastoral Care

Donald Capps (Author)

Resurrecting Church: Where Justice and Diversity Meet Radical Welcome and Healing Hope

John Cleghorn (Author), Rodney S. Sadler Jr. (Foreword by)

Resurrecting Church interweaves three stories, beginning with the remarkable turnaround story of Caldwell Presbyterian Church, which was on the edge of extinction when author John Cleghorn became its pastor. Cleghorn also tells the story of his own growth and liberation from the myopia of privilege. Also included are stories of several diverse congregations that have taken risks, deepening empathy and seeking justice. The book updates the conversation about church vitality in timely and surprising ways.

Reviving the Congregation: Pastoral Leadership in a Changing Context

Michael W. Foss (Author)

Dr. Foss here offers a compelling introduction to the new context in which we lead our congregations and the personal and congregational strategies that will offer a way forward.

Ritual and Pastoral Care

Elaine Ramshaw (Author), Don S. Browning (Editor)

Pastoral counseling can be imbued with a sense of community and of the transcendent; there is no surer way for this to happen than through a vital and...

Sexual Shame: An Urgent Call to Healing

Karen A. McClintock (Author)

This is the book that will provide pastors and congregational leadership the tools to identify the assumptions, behaviors, and structures that promote, while...

Short-Term Spiritual Guidance

Duane R. Bidwell (Author)

This book represents a significant departure from most contemporary writing about spiritual direction. While most writers focus on long-term relationships of...

Spiritual Care

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Jay C. Rochelle (Translator)

Bonhoeffer says spiritual care is a function of the congregation and that it is an aspect of the broader, more encompassing activity of proclamation. In...

Strategies for Brief Pastoral Counseling

Howard W. Stone (Editor)

More and more professionals in ministry realized the benefits of brief pastoral counseling?typically three sessions?for addressing the real-life...

The Caring Church: A Guide for Lay Pastoral Care

Howard W. Stone (Author)

The principles outlined here help laypersons develop or refine the skills needed for a ministry of healing, sustaining, guiding, and reconciling. Specific...

The Compassionate Visitor: Resources for Ministering to People Who Are Ill

Arthur H. Becker (Author)

Here is practical help for anyone involved in congregational visitation ministry. Examples of actual hospital visits illustrate the basic "dos and dont's" of...

The Contemplative Counselor: A Way of Being

Rolf R. Nolasco Jr. (Author)

The Contemplative Counselor extends the discourse on pastoral counseling beyond theories and techniques to include a focal description of a life lived in active...

The Effective Pastor: A Guide to Successful Ministry

Louis W. Bloede (Author)

This highly practical step-by-step look at the life and role of the pastor is helpful for newly ordained clergy as well as the experienced pastor looking for...

The Parish Nurse: Providing a Minister of Health for Your Congregation

Granger E. Westberg (Author)

Here, Granger Westberg presents a creative, new way for congregations to provide a wholistic ministry to their members. His parish nurse program brings...

The Pastor as Moral Guide

Rebekah L. Miles (Author)

Adultery, divorce, racism, teen pregnancy, white-collar crime, living wills—these are among the many complex moral issues that Christians face and for...

The Skilled Pastor: Counseling as the Practice of Theology

Charles W. Taylor (Author)

A splendid volume detailing the specific skills necessary for sound pastoral guidance in various situations. The author integrates theological reflection...

The Way of Peace: Christian Life in Face of Discord

James M. Childs Jr. (Author)

In the spirit and style of Paul Tillich, theologian and ethicist James M. Childs Jr. argues that, for Christians, peace poses particular problems because of the...

They Don't Come with Instructions: Cries, Wisdom, and Hope for Parenting Children with Developmental Challenges

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl (Author)

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl offers insights for the journey with a developmentally challenged child. As the mother of a son with an autism diagnosis, she also offers ways to keep hope.

The book focuses on the challenges of parenting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), and/or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Readers who seek to understand what it is like to live with a developmentally challenged child will appreciate Holt-Woehl's down-to-earth and compassionate approach.

Through the Wilderness of Alzheimer's: A Guide in Two Voices

Anne Simpson (Author), Robert Simpson (Author)

Nearly four million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, a debilitating neurological disorder affecting the memory that places great stress on the sufferer as...

Touched: For Survivors of Sexual Assault Like Me Who Have Been Hurt by Church Folk and for Those Who Will Care

Shanell T. Smith (Author)

Touched, by Shanell T. Smith, makes visible the often silenced or ignored narratives of survivors of sexual violence. It tells the author's story of her personal traumatic experience with sexual violence by a church leader and focuses on the responses that she received from people in the church (clergy and lay folk) once she "sounded the alarm."Touched helps readers learn how to respond to those who seek refuge and care.