Nancy J. Ramsay

Gender, Violence, and Justice

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“This collection of essays is a welcomed gift for religious leaders and seminary classrooms. Across three decades, Pamela Cooper-White has led the way in articulating issues and strategies for resisting sexual violence and promoting healing for survivors. The importance and challenge of resisting and ending sexual violence in faith communities and culture have evolved with her leadership, but the need for guidance is as critical as ever. This collection is an invaluable resource.”

Living Devotions

“Living Devotions is a beautifully and skillfully written resource I recommend to pastors and will use with seminarians and graduate students. Moschella's exploration of and reflections on the power of lived religion within a community shaped by its ethnic identity demonstrates the significance and transformative potential of religious practices not only in the growing number of such communities in the U.S. but also in any congregation. In Living Devotions Moschella skillfully demonstrates ways to hear deeply the experience of another and to reflect upon those experiences as embodied knowledge that has transforming potential.”

Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“"In Moving Beyond Individualism Barbara McClure offers a brilliantly constructed new synergistic model for pastoral theology and the practices of care that recognizes the more profoundly socio-cultural and relational complexity of human beings and suffering. Her model helps us transcend the theological and social limitations of individualism and provides new resources for engaging in effective care with persons and systems whose distress is shaped by larger social forces.”

Render Unto God

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Jim Poling weaves together his expertise in the effects of violence with careful attention to the way economics impacts the lives of those who look to the church for care and counseling. The result is an extraordinarily useful resource that offers an intercultural frame to demonstrate the need for informed economic analysis to revise current theory and practice of care and counseling. Render Unto God is a theoretically and theologically rich contribution that will help pastors, seminarians, and pastoral counselors discern and resist values and practices that create or reproduce economic vulnerability, and guides the practice of care in ways that contribute to economic justice and nonviolence.”

The Practice of Pastoral Care, Revised and Expanded Edition

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“In this revised and expanded edition, Carrie Doehring makes another remarkable contribution to pastoral theology and to contemporary practices of pastoral care. Using a narrative approach, she provides rich interdisciplinary and current resources for engaging the complex and intersecting differences that shape contexts for care as well as the embodied relationality of those who give and receive such care. Her experienced skill as a teacher shapes each chapter accessibly. Doehring artfully demonstrates the practice of intercultural care as a theologically reflective and co-creative process that seeks spiritual integration and relational justice.”

Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“This is a much-needed, deeply informed, accessible resource for guiding spiritual care providers privileged to walk beside survivors of trauma. Tumminio Hansen skillfully interweaves theoretical and clinical guidance that chaplains and parish clergy alike will be able to engage and employ. Importantly, she illustrates how experiences of embedded oppression, such as racism and sexism, amplify other forms of trauma and must inform practices of restorative justice and care. I highly commend this resource for MDiv and DMin classrooms and for ACPE, VA, and military chaplaincy training programs.”