Howard W. Stone

Beyond the Walls of Separation

Church Leadership & Ministry

Foreword

(wrote a foreword)

Competency-Based Counseling

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“The work that Thomas and Cockburn are suggesting in this book is cutting edge. What they are writing about, ministers will be talking about five to ten years from now. This manuscript is very creative. I am very much in favor of the Thomas/Cockburn proposal.”

Counseling Men

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Throughout, I found myself agreeing and demurring, but always being engaged by Culbertson's formulations. His ideas will provoke and comfort, sensitize and humanize those who take seriously the changing world in which men find themselves. An important resource for those seeking to minister to men."”

Pastoral Care Emergencies

Church Leadership & Ministry

“I am confident that reading Pastoral Care Emergencies will strengthen and enrich your pastoral care, counseling, and general ministry. Switzer brings to his work the wisdom of some forty years of experience as a parish pastor and seminary professor. The scope and quality of the care you offer to others is certain to benefit from his knowledge and sound guidance.”

Pastoral Care of Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“In the church and even outside of it, few subjects stir controversy -- and tempers -- more quickly than the church's response to homosexuality. In Pastoral Care of Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families, David Switzer recognized the sensitivity of the homosexuality issue in the church. . . . [The book] will challenge readers to examine their ministry to gays and lesbians in the congregations and enhance their ministry to them.”

Premarital Guidance

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“In Premarital Guidance, Charles Taylor does not rehash well-worn phrases about marriage. He combines systems theory, cognitive therapy, sociological data, and the traditions of the church with pastoral theology and pastoral care from a new and fresh perspective . . . an eminently practical book.”

Short-Term Spiritual Guidance

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“In Short-Term Spiritual Guidance, Duane Bidwell. . . offers several specific interventions that the reader can use when caring for the spiritual life. He not only makes the point that, historically, most spirit care is brief but also goes on to suggest how brief spiritual care can be done. He provides a way that ministers and concerned laypersons can offer spiritual direction that honors the person, recognizes the context of how the care is offered 'on the run,' and stays true to the historical direction has been offered. I think you will find his specific suggestions for how to go about care, and this specific intervention involved, very beneficial.”

When Faith Is Tested

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“This book is a result of Jeffry R. Zurheide's reflections about his own experience of personal loss and the suffering and losses of the many people he has served as a hospital chaplain and as a parish pastor. He shares his insights on how to offer care to those who are not only devastated by a tragedy but also are plagued by 'Why' questions.”