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A Spirituality for Doing Justice: Reflections for Congregation-based Organizers
Dennis Jacobsen brings his many years of experience doing congregation-based organizing for justice into conversation with unique spiritual reflections. Jacobsen turns to his work creating and meditating on icons to connect biblical themes and Christian personalities to guide those who are preparing for congregation-organizing and faith-based social action. His unique perspectives help anyone engaged in such work go deeper in prayer and devotion before diving into the messy work of organizing.
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Dutiful Love: Empowering Individuals and Families Affected by Mental Illness
Dutiful Love explores the distinctive relationship between self-sacrificial love and caregiving when that duty to care extends over the course of an entire lifetime because of social limitations placed upon people with severe mental illness. The author draws upon her own experiences as the sibling of someone with mental illness. The book includes discussion questions, making it an ideal resource for individual reflection, church study groups, and college, seminary, and university classrooms.
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The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition:Living Well to Life's End
The Divine Art of Dying aims to empower people who are dying to live as fully as they can until life's end. The book includes reflections from Karen Speerstra's hospice journal and essays written jointly by Speeratra and Herbert Anderson on learning to wait, letting go, giving gifts, and telling stories. Each chapter has suggestions for caregivers.
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Necessary Risks: Challenges Privileged People Need to Face
In Necessary Risks, Teri McDowell Ott explores her wrestling, as a privileged white Christian woman, with ten risks and the underlying systems and structures that need to be changed. Such risks, she argues, transform individuals and communities, creating a path toward a more equitable and just world.
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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.
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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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Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
This thoughtful collection of prayers emerged from Brueggemann's thirty-five years of teaching in seminaries. Full of reflection, faith, and dialogue, they...
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Just Traveling: God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road
Just Traveling celebrates moving at the speed of being present to one's experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Following the scriptural witness of God as the Earthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. Whether leaving home serves our wanderlust and curiosity or has personal or spiritual purposes, when we travel, we explore a beautiful, yet complex and troubled world.
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Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century
Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care with stories about Christian caregivers meeting those challenges in creative ways. Baab also presents four practical skills pastoral carers need: to understand common stressors, to listen, to pray with others, and to nurture their personal resilience. In each chapter, she offers discussion question as well as tips for readers who are training other pastoral carers.
Nurturing Hope brings readers hope for their caring role and their own spiritual journey.
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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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Holy Spirit: Creative Power in Our Lives
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Who is the Holy Spirit? How does the Spirit work in our lives as individuals, families, communities, and in the world at large? What would happen if we claimed...$18.00
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Psalms for Healing: Praying with Those in Need
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.
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Power Surge: Six Marks of Discipleship for a Changing Church
A powerful plan to transform church members into impassioned disciples. Drawing on his experience at Prince of Peace, Foss makes the case for transforming...
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Life Unsettled: A Scriptural Journey for Wilderness Times
The metaphor of wilderness journeying and the biblical book of Numbers take center stage in Cory Driver's creative account of life in wilderness times, a hallmark metaphor for the life of faith. The author combines the study of biblical texts, ancient Jewish legends, modern theological insights, and his own personal journeys to provide a guide for moving forward when we feel lost and confused. It includes a discussion guide ideal for group use.
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The Pastor: A Spirituality
Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors - whatever and...
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Lindisfarne Liturgies for Christian Festivals
Ray Simpson's liturgical prayers for Christian festivals provide worship for individuals, new monastic groups and churches.
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Touched: For Survivors of Sexual Assault Like Me Who Have Been Hurt by Church Folk and for Those Who Will Care
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.
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The Daily Prayer of the Church
This is a complete prayer book in the ancient way of offices including text and music for Morning, Evening, and Compline Prayer for each season of the Church year, Forms for Prayer during the Day, Proper antiphons and Psalm prayers, and both ancient and modern hymns. Based on the two-year lectionary, this prayer book offers an ecumenical course of collects, an enriched calendar of festivals and commemorations, as well as intercessions and devotional prayers.
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A Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice
In A Song to Sing, A Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning...
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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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