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Boundary Leaders: Leadership Skills for People of Faith

A major challenge for religious communities today lies in harnessing the commitment and energy of religious people to address larger societal issues. Key to...

One Anothering, Volume 3: Creating Significant Spiritual Community

Nine sessions, based on such themes as "speak truthfully to one another," "do not grumble against one another," "do not provoke one another," and "look out for...

One Anothering, Volume 2: Building Spiritual Community in Small Groups

Ten sessions, based on such themes as "accept one another," "serve one another," "teach one another," and "honor one another."...

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Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence

Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations...

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The Gift and Task of Lutheran Higher Education

Why should Lutherans care whether there are any ''Lutheran'' colleges and universities? Why should people who study, teach, and work in colleges and...

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Short-Term Spiritual Guidance

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

Aging, Spirituality, and Religion, A Handbook: Volume 1

This book examines the ways religion and spirituality are experienced by aging persons within an aging society. It aims to encompass the wholeness of the...

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Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling

Understanding one's personal issues and emotional reactions—one's "countertransference"—has long been recognized as a core competency in ministry....

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Healing Bodies and Souls: A Practical Guide for Congregations

As healthcare leaders widely recognize, churches are second homes to their members and ideally situated—indeed called—to serve their communities...

The Gift to Listen, the Courage to Hear

The Gift to Listen, the Courage to Hear interweaves listening techniques with spiritual principles that emphasize the importance of listening and provide a...

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Preaching John

The Gospel of John exhibits a peculiar Christian language and thought that need to be understood and employed in the preaching ministry. The preacher's task...

Spiritual Maturity: Preserving Congregational Health and Balance

Like all human bodies, the body of Christ that we call "church" needs to attend to its health or it may become ill. Renowned pastor, preacher, and teacher...

The Spirituality of Men: Sixteen Christians Write about Their Faith

Dying to old roles and rising again... Sixteen men attempt to lay out what it means to be an adult male Christian. The authors move beyond old stereotypes of...

Listening Ministry: Rethinking Pastoral Leadership

This book presents a unique blend of theological reflection on listening, new and tested research on listening as it relates to church leadership, and...

Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing

Doing Justice is an introductory theology of congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry and in...

Strategies for Brief Pastoral Counseling

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

Listening for the Soul: Pastoral Care and Spiritual Direction

This book explores the relationship between the practices of pastoral care and the practices of spiritual direction with the aim of enabling pastoral...

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New Creation: Elements of a Liturgical Worldview

Although the twentieth century witnessed a thorough liturgical revival and renewal, the last ten years exploded in diverse and conflicting styles, settings,...

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

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

Pastoral Visitation

Clergy, students of pastoral care, and lay visitation volunteers will find Nancy Gorsuch an effective guide in developing an intentional, proactive program...