Mindy McGarrah Sharp

Crisis and Care

Work, Money & Leadership

“‘What are your money stories? What role do ancestors and future generations play? Can you trace lines of dreams, data, and disruptions through histories and imagined futures of giving and receiving in organizations you love and support and that love and support you?’ In Crisis and Care, Dustin Benac and Erin Weber-Johnson have assembled a remarkable group of faith leaders, foundation administrators, scholars, artists, and activists. Through brief evocative meditations, seventeen authors engage philanthropic practices with stories, rituals, theologies, imaginative resources, and practical strategies. With so many people, families, institutions, and communities navigating tenuous intersections of grief and longing, Crisis and Care will resource your practices of stewardship, religious education, strategic planning, and even personal finances and reflection. As a practical theologian, I have been waiting for a resource that offers theologies of money that shift from transactional to transformational practices, embedding each and every fundraising campaign and charitable donation in a larger network of meaning-making words of faith, love, and justice.”

Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Kujawa-Holbrook and Montagno are at it again, offering a revision I realize I have been waiting for. Faithful to their original motivating quest to resource 'pastoral care as if oppression matters,' this thoroughly revised and reorganized second edition expands the diversities of issues, identities, and intersections of pastoral care today. Activists, pastors, and professors need Kujawa-Holbrook and Montagno's edited book to inform spiritual care practices in situations always affected by oppressive structures that continue to perpetuate harm from generation to generation. The authors make a compelling case for and show how to practice care that attends to liberation and transformation toward thriving together. This is pastoral care that is real about just how much oppression matters and is a book needed urgently in a grieving, aching world with layers of unhealed wounds while bursting in possibilities and practices of new life. I will be assigning this edition in my pastoral care classes.”

Lay Pastoral Care

Church Leadership & Ministry

“After contributing to pastoral care literature over many decades, Marshall and Neuger offer another exciting collabora­tion. Their new book on narrative lay pastoral care belongs in all pastoral care conversations in seminary classrooms, church lay leader trainings, and communities of faith seeking mutual support in a world that needs healing.”

Spiritual Care First Aid

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“You may know how to pack a medical first-aid kit, but do you know how to pack a spiritual first-aid kit? Cody Sanders gets specific: words, phrases, beautiful questions, practices to use, and avoiding things done with good intention that often make matters worse. Focusing on strengths and stories, Sanders prepares individuals and teams to hear difficult things, to help immediately while professionals are on the way, and to support healing around life's deep difficulties. Spiritual Care First Aid equips us to be the trusted (often untrained) first responders to address the spiritual-care situations that will most certainly come our way. Full of example scripts and practice exercises, Spiritual Care First Aid is easily adaptable for classrooms and care teams. The world needs confident and capable people who, with the help of this book, carry spiritually grounded basic skills through this messy, beautiful world, more prepared to meet those unexpected moments when spiritual first aid is needed now.”