Fortress Press

Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul

J. Jeffrey Means Ph.D. (Author), Mary Ann Nelson (Author)

This book helps those who provide care to victims of abuse and violence add to their knowledge base an understanding of evil. The authors "demythologize" evil...

Uncovering Spiritual Narratives: Using Story in Pastoral Care and Ministry

Suzanne M. Coyle (Author)

Drawing on both theological approaches and real life experiences, Coyle creates a contextual pastoral theology that helps caregivers find the power of God in people's stories.

Violence in Families: What Every Christian Needs to Know

Al Miles (Author)

Domestic violence is an often glossed-over danger in families today, and Christian families are not immune. The warning signs can be hidden or disregarded....

Waiting for Good News: Living with Chronic and Serious Illness

Sally Wilke (Author)

Sally Wilke has lived with and through the serious chronic illness of someone she cared deeply about. And she has provided pastoral care to individuals and families in similar situations. Waiting for Good News captures her hard-won, helpful, and hope-filled wisdom. Wilke also offers tools, tips, ideas, and resources for obtaining or providing additional support.

When Faith Is Tested: Pastoral Responses to Suffering and Tragic Death

Jeffry R. Zurheide (Author), Howard W. Stone (Editor)

When a religious caregive visits a person who is suffering and dying or who is grieving a tragic death, questions arise concerning faith in God's goodness and...

When Trauma Wounds: Pathways to Healing and Hope

Karen A. McClintock (Author)

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.

When Violence Is No Stranger: Pastoral Counseling with Survivors of Acquaintance Rape

Kristen J. Leslie (Author)

"It is not my enemies who taunt me?I could bear that.... It is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend...." Ps. 55:12-13 The paucity of...

Woman Battering

Carol J. Adams (Author)

This book was written as a practical response to many ministers who approached the author after they did not know what to say to a woman suffering violence...

Contemplative Witnessing: BIPOC-Centered Spiritual Direction

Cindy S. Lee (Author)

Cindy S. Lee calls for spiritual directors to serve as contemplative witnesses to injustices when BIPOC people's sacredness is dismissed. Contemplative Witnessing equips spiritual directors who want to help BIPOC people cultivate a liberating spirituality so we can encounter restorative, divine movements in and around ourselves.

Spiritual Care First Aid: An All-Hands Approach for Church and Community

Cody J. Sanders (Author)

Cody J. Sanders's Spiritual Care First Aid provides instruction in the basics of spiritual care in a way that nearly anyone can use. A field guide to serving as a spiritual-care first responder whenever and wherever help is needed, the book offers an accessible approach of hearing, helping, and healing.

Base Ecumenism: Latin American Contributions to Ecumenical Praxis and Theology

Raimundo C. Barreto (Author)

This book deals with base ecumenism, a practice that originated in Latin America but has ramifications for the broader ecumenical movement. It focuses on initiatives that emerge from the people in conversation with interchurch work. The book highlights the agency of women, racially minoritized groups, and youth in Latin America.

Reframing Trauma: A Psychospiritual Theory and Theology

M. Jan Holton (Editor), Jill L. Snodgrass (Editor), Jessica Chapman Lape (Contributor), Keith A. Menhinick (Contributor), Cody J. Sanders (Contributor), Ryan LaMothe (Contributor), Eunil David Cho (Contributor), Nazila Isgandarova (Contributor), Hee-Kyu Heidi Park (Contributor), John B. Freese (Contributor)

As awareness of the widespread presence of trauma grows, popular culture can name everything stressful "traumatic." Yet, diagnostic definitions of trauma overlook cultural understandings that refine our concept of trauma. In Reframing Trauma, M. Jan Holton and Jill L. Snodgrass offer a theory and theology of trauma to navigate such complexities.

Refilling the Reservoirs: Spiritual Care for the Exhausted Caregiver

Brenda Bos (Author)

Life as a caregiver is hard. There are no easy answers, and hope can feel elusive. Bos, a Lutheran pastor and a fellow caregiver, shares a spiritually grounded message of solidarity steeped in the conviction that God meets us in the hard places--even when it's difficult to see beyond our pain.

Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence

Kenneth J. Doka (Author)

Thirty years ago, Kenneth J. Doka coined the term "disenfranchised grief" to name people's losses that are not socially sanctioned, openly recognized, or publicly mourned. In Disenfranchised Grief: Breaking the Silence, Doka now empowers clergy and ministry caregivers to gain the insights and skills to better care for disenfranchised grievers.

Funding Forward: A Pathway to More Sustainable Models for Ministry

Grace Duddy Pomroy (Author)

Funding Forward provides a path to help a congregation discern God's mission, reconnect with the neighborhood, and find a more economically sustainable model for ministry. This book can help ministries walk through the funding forward process from start to finish, paying special attention to the leadership challenges and pitfalls along the way.

Physician of Souls: Ministry as Medicine

Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner (Author)

The book explores the concept of "physician of souls," emphasizing the interconnection of body-mind-soul-culture and the importance of community in the healing process. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner advocates for a more prominent role for religious professionals in health care and aims to bridge the gap between medical and religious professions.

Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care: How to Respond When Things Fall Apart

Karen A. McClintock (Author)

In Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care, pastoral psychologist Karen A. McClintock offers clergy competence and confidence as they care for trauma victims in their congregations and communities, provides practical skills to lower the risk of secondary trauma, and suggests culturally sensitive models for healing.

In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice

Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore (Author)

In the Midst of Chaos, by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, explores parenting as spiritual practice.

Both honest about the difficulties and attentive to the blessings present in everyday life, it explores how parents might use seven daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight, as rich opportunities to shape both parent and child morally and spiritually.

Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead

Cody J. Sanders (Author), Mikeal C. Parsons (Author)

This volume develops robust, constructive, practical ethics of corpse care that address economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns for caring for the dead.

Breathe Restlessness into Me: The Subversive and Inspired Poems and Meditations of Ted Loder

Ted Loder (Author)

Ted Loder continues to inspire readers with his powerful prayers, sermons, and reflections. This compilation includes Guerrillas of Grace, Wrestling the Light, The Haunt of Grace, and Tracks in the Straw. Loder's words speak to the human experience, drawing out the beauty and struggle as we respond to the grace of God.