Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry with stories from diverse cultures and religious traditions in preparing a new model for ministry. Weaving keen... (more)

Reaching Out

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

The author of The Return of the Prodigal Son offers a perceptive, inspirational three-step plan for living a spiritual life and achieving union with God. Reprint.

Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community

Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community

by Suzanne G. Farnham, Joseph P. Gill, R. Taylor McLean, Susan M. Ward

Explores the themes of call, discernment, and community as they relate to each other. It asks us to listen to our hearts so that we may discover ourselves. This guides us on how we can remain faithful and accountable.

Faithful Living, Faithful Dying: Anglican Reflections on End of Life Care

Faithful Living, Faithful Dying: Anglican Reflections on End of Life Care

by Jan C. Heller (editor) Cynthia B. Cohen (editor), Bruce Jennings (editor), E. F. Morgan (editor), David A. Scott (editor), Timothy F. Sedgwick (editor), David H. Smith (editor)

Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, Second Edition

Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, Second Edition

by Monica McGoldrick

A fully revised and expanded edition of this landmark work. This is the authoritative volume on the impact of death on the family system. Therapeutic guidelines are offered for working with the mourning process and resolving long-term complications. New chapters address such topics as spirituality, traumatic deaths, and stigmatized losses. A new section offers reflections by prominent family therapists on... (more)

All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care

All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care

by Herbert Anderson, Kenneth R. Mitchell

Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth R. Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including orgins of grief, loss throughout life, dynamics of grief, care for those who grieve, and the theology of grieving. This examination of the process of grief is enriched by vivid illustrations and case histories of individuals whose experiences... (more)

Cultivating Wholeness: A Guide to Care and Counseling in Faith Communities

Cultivating Wholeness: A Guide to Care and Counseling in Faith Communities

by Margaret Zipse Kornfeld

Designed for religious or lay people involved in counselling, this text provides a practical, comprehensive and contemporary guide to community care and counselling in religious contexts. It emphasizes the dynamics of change, on wholeness, and on community as not only the context for healing but the means by which healing happens.

Pastoral Care Emergencies (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series)

Pastoral Care Emergencies (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series)

by David K. Switzer

David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative, practical manual for pastoral caregivers that covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies typically faced by clergy, pastoral counselors, and lay caregivers such as Stephen Ministers and Befrienders. The chapters deal with such issues such as situational crises, hospital emergencies, ministry to the dying, bereavement, suicide, divorce, domestic ... (more)

Choosing to Live: How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy

Choosing to Live: How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy

by Thomas E. Ellis

"Anyone who has contemplated suicide and anyone with a suicidal loved one will profit from the straightforward and helpful suggestions in this book".--Danny Wedding, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Missouri Institute of Mental Health. ". . . this easy-to-read book can help suicidal people understand their suffering while they take charge of their own healing".--Paul G. Quinnett, Ph.D., author of SUICIDE: THE FOREVER... (more)

Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry (2nd edition) (Thin Book Series)

Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry (2nd edition) (Thin Book Series)

by Sue Annis Hammond

An Easy To Read Introduction To The Theory Of Change Management That Focuses On What Works. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title

Care of Persons, Care of Worlds: A Psychosystems Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling

Care of Persons, Care of Worlds: A Psychosystems Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling

by Larry Kent Graham

Care of Persons, Care of Worlds constructs a comprehensive social and systemic foundation for pastoral caretaking, which will be an invaluable guide for the activities of parish ministers and counseling practitioners. Graham's model better interprets and responds to the interplay between individuals and the larger cultural and environmental realities which contribute to their distress and its transformation.

Life of the Spirit in the Mature Years: The Gift of Peace and Purpose

Life of the Spirit in the Mature Years: The Gift of Peace and Purpose

by Tracy Lamar

Bereavement: Counseling the Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle (Continuum Counseling Series)

Bereavement: Counseling the Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle (Continuum Counseling Series)

by David A. Crenshaw

When Suffering Persists

by Frederick W. Schmidt

For clergy, counselors, parish study groups, general audiences. Sometimes pain passes quickly and small losses are easily absorbed. But suffering often goes on and on, and for people of faith, the resulting crisis can be deeper and more destructive than the loss itself. We look for ways to comfort those who are hurting. But sometimes, in spite of our good intentions, the clichés and simplistic theology we... (more)

Getting Through Grief: Caregiving by Congregations

Getting Through Grief: Caregiving by Congregations

by Ronald Sunderland

A foundation for congregational-based ministry to persons who are grieving. Contending that grief work is actually the responsibility of the congregation, Sunderland says congregations need to experience grief education to carry out their mission. He gives special attention to grief work with children and teenagers and stresses the importance of ongoing grief support groups.

African American Pastoral Care

by Edward P. Wimberly

This major revision of Wimberlys classic updates his narrative methodology by examining current issues in African American pastoral care and counseling.

Preventing Sexual Abuse in Congregations: A Resource for Leaders

Preventing Sexual Abuse in Congregations: A Resource for Leaders

by Karen A. McClintock

Are you ready to abuse-proof your congregation? If one child or adult is spared the confusing ordeal of unwanted touch, it will be worth your time to read this book. In this comprehensive resource, Methodist pastor and pastoral psychologist Karen McClintock demonstrates that sexual abuse in congregations is preventable and gives clergy and lay leaders the tools they need to prevent it. This book shows... (more)

What God Wants for Your Life: Changing the Way We Seek God's Will

What God Wants for Your Life: Changing the Way We Seek God's Will

by Frederick W. Schmidt

A Practical and Engaging Guide for Changing the Way We Seek God's Will How do we know God's will for our lives? This question lies at the heart of Christian life. And yet, attempting to understand our greater purpose can become a source of frustration as we look for help when making important life decisions. Spiritual retreat leader and Episcopal priest Fred Schmidt reveals how we can better recognize the... (more)

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The Wounded Healer

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Reaching Out

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community

by Suzanne G. Farnham, Joseph P. Gill, R. Taylor McLean, Susan M. Ward

Faithful Living, Faithful Dying: Anglican Reflections on End of Life Care

by Jan C. Heller (editor) Cynthia B. Cohen (editor), Bruce Jennings (editor), E. F. Morgan (editor), David A. Scott (editor), Timothy F. Sedgwick (editor), David H. Smith (editor)

Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, Second Edition

by Monica McGoldrick

All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care

by Herbert Anderson, Kenneth R. Mitchell

Cultivating Wholeness: A Guide to Care and Counseling in Faith Communities

by Margaret Zipse Kornfeld

Pastoral Care Emergencies (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series)

by David K. Switzer

Choosing to Live: How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy

by Thomas E. Ellis

Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry (2nd edition) (Thin Book Series)

by Sue Annis Hammond

Care of Persons, Care of Worlds: A Psychosystems Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling

by Larry Kent Graham

Life of the Spirit in the Mature Years: The Gift of Peace and Purpose

by Tracy Lamar

Bereavement: Counseling the Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle (Continuum Counseling Series)

by David A. Crenshaw

When Suffering Persists

by Frederick W. Schmidt

Getting Through Grief: Caregiving by Congregations

by Ronald Sunderland

African American Pastoral Care

by Edward P. Wimberly

Preventing Sexual Abuse in Congregations: A Resource for Leaders

by Karen A. McClintock

What God Wants for Your Life: Changing the Way We Seek God's Will

by Frederick W. Schmidt

Holy Listening

by Margaret Guenther