Edward P. Wimberly

Building King's Beloved Community

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“The work of Chinula is an excellent contribution . . . Grounded firmly in King's understanding of the 'Beloved Community' and how God bestows value and worth to persons, he builds a model of pastoral care that analyzes social systems and oppressive structures. Further, the model builds self-esteem and self-worth, and fosters identity of those who are oppressed.”

Counseling and Pastoral Care in African and Other Cross-Cultural Contexts

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Since I met Tapiwa Mucherera while he was in seminary, he has been fascinated with the idea of how western healing therapeutic practices could be suited to an African context. Due to his interest as a scholar and practitioner, he has found a way to contextualize western healing therapeutic practices with African cultural healing practices. His work represents how cross-cultural pastoral therapeutic and healing practices can work together to facilitate therapeutic and healing practices in an African context.”

Glimmers of Hope

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Drawing on his cultural background growing up in Zimbabwe as well as his many years of teaching experience . . . Mucherera has brought together a whole host of pastoral theologians in order to demonstrate the relevance of narrative therapy for addressing contemporary pastoral-care problems. This is a much-needed reference for pastors, pastoral counselors, pastoral theologians, Christian counselors, and spiritual guides.”

Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“For many years I have drawn on seven African-born pastoral care and counseling colleagues for insights related to the cultural and religious models and practices of pastoral care and counseling needs of African-Americans. In this new book these practical theologians have deliberately turned their attention to the pastoral care needs of the African Christian community, and their focus is on the negative impact that colonialism has had on African traditional caring practices. Moreover, they have targeted the need to apply pastoral care resources to the ongoing current African problems such as HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, and political corruption.”

Pressing Toward the Mark

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“I had no idea I was raised on the principles of Womanist Theology until I read E. Hammond Oglesby's Pressing Toward the Mark. . . . Indeed, the unique contribution of this book to ethics in the black church in the twenty-first century is its reminder to us that our moral traditions have Womanist roots.”