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Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul
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...
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True Connection: Using the NAME IT Model to Heal Relationships
From their years of counseling individuals, couples, and families, George Faller and Heather Wright show how to repair conflict and discover God's movement in our life and relationships.
Using the NAME IT (Notice, Acknowledge, Merge, Embrace, Integrate, and Thank) model, first we connect with our own hearts and stories, then understand the other person's position, and finally merge those two truths (or versions of what is happening), giving birth to a new connection.
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Uncovering Spiritual Narratives: Using Story in Pastoral Care and Ministry
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.
$29.00
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Violence in Families: What Every Christian Needs to Know
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....
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Waiting for Good News: Living with Chronic and Serious Illness
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.
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When Faith Is Tested: Pastoral Responses to Suffering and Tragic Death
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...
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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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When Violence Is No Stranger: Pastoral Counseling with Survivors of Acquaintance Rape
"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...
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Woman Battering
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...
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Spiritual Care First Aid: An All-Hands Approach for Church and Community
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.
$35.00
Available April 15, 2025
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Funding Forward: A Pathway to More Sustainable Models for Ministry
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.
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Refilling the Reservoirs: Spiritual Care for the Exhausted Caregiver
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.
$24.00
Available January 28, 2025
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Physician of Souls: Ministry as Medicine
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.
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Reframing Trauma: A Psychospiritual Theory and Theology
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.
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Available April 8, 2025
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Contemplative Witnessing: BIPOC-Centered Spiritual Direction
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.
$22.00
Available April 29, 2025
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Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence
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.
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Available June 3, 2025
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Base Ecumenism: Latin American Contributions to Ecumenical Praxis and Theology
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.
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Available June 24, 2025
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Breathe Restlessness into Me: The Subversive and Inspired Poems and Meditations of Ted Loder
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.
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The Art of Spiritual Care across Religious Difference: Revised Edition
The Art of Spiritual Care across Religious Difference equips spiritual caregivers to offer competent care amid religious pluralism. This book presents theory and practices to help caregivers think reflexively about their own religious locations and how these locations impact relational dynamics with care seekers across diverse cultural contexts.
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Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership after Empire
Kathleen McShane and Elan Babchuck argue that empire-inspired leadership models hollow out faith institutions and exhaust their leaders. In Picking Up the Pieces, the authors offer a leadership model based on the conviction that power shared is power multiplied. The book offers a hopeful, practical, and sustainable way forward for all God's people.
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