Pamela Cooper-White

Counseling Women

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Christie Neuger gives us a breathtaking and prophetic view of the often invisable social, cultural, and systemic forces that affect women's life stories. Counseling Women offers a much-needed narrative approach to pastoral care and brief counseling that is grounded in the feminist theological commitments of empowerment, justice, grace, and interdependency. An important contribution!”

Exploring the Psychosocial and Psycho-spiritual Dynamics of Singleness Among African American Christian Women in Midlife

Women

“In [this book] Dr. Christina Hicks addresses a topic that has been quietly discussed among Black women, but until now largely ignored as a topic of serious research. Drawing from solid theological methodology and well-chosen psychological theory, and grounded in her in-depth interviews with women, Hicks makes an important new contribution to the field of pastoral theology. This will be a much appreciated guide for pastoral care and counseling with a neglected but significant population of Africa American women, as well as their pastors, partners, families, and friends.”

Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“I welcome this revised second edition of Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen B. Montagno's excellent anthology Injustice and the Care of Souls. Incorporating new essays and updating the first edition, this volume again brings voices of the marginalized into the spotlight for pastoral care and shines a light on ways in which traditional, white, Western modes of caregiving, however well-intentioned, can also reinforce and collude with oppressive systems. An important and potentially eye-opening read for religious leaders and all those who provide pastoral and spiritual care.”

Liberalism and Colonial Violence

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“With her breathtaking command of Western philosophy, colonial history, and pastoral theology, Hellena Moon has taken a sledgehammer to the still-dominant European epistemological foundations underlying ‘traditional’ pastoral theology and care, calling us to deconstruct, and then radically reimagine our history and practices, in order to rebuild our field from its very ruins for the sake of the flourishing of all people everywhere. This book is a must-read.”

Midwifing—A Womanist Approach to Pastoral Counseling

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Dr. Thurmond-Malone offers a compelling and relevant metaphor, ‘midwifing,’ for pastoral counseling with African American women. The empowering approach to healing proposed in this volume addresses both the ongoing contemporary stressors of racism and sexism, and the lasting intergenerational traumatic impact and psychic legacy of slavery on Black women's current reality. The stories she shares from women in pastoral conversation are spiritually and emotionally rich and compelling, and help to show a pathway from suffering to surviving to thriving.”

Reframing Trauma

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“While I have long been skeptical of superficial applications of the concept of post-traumatic growth, I find in this book a sophisticated understanding of the coexistence of traumatic suffering with resilience. From a psychoanalytic perspective, I appreciate this as a move from unconscious splitting to greater possibilities for wholeness. By widening the lens in this approach to trauma beyond a purely medicalized conception, and beyond Western and Christian notions of trauma and healing, the authors offer an expanded and more contextualized understanding of how persons navigate both trauma and healing. By framing stress and trauma as a continuum, this volume invites readers to expand their thinking about how to address trauma, with implications for practice, in a world where global injustice and climate crisis have created a baseline of existential anxiety for us all.”

Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past

Science & Faith

“Scientific advances in the study of the human brain are proceeding at 'warp speed,' raising challenging questions about human consciousness, identity, and ultimately, faith. David Hogue offers here a cogent and eminently readable guide to brain research, the light it sheds on the processes of perception, memory and imagination, and the implication of these for pastoral counseling, worship, and spiritual practice . . . a very helpful contribution at the frontier of science and pastoral theology!”

Spiritual Care in our Multifaith World

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Given the religious and cultural pluralism of settings for spiritual care today, this book is an indispensable guide. Daniel Schipani brings together the wisdom of long international experience as a teacher and practitioner, weaving together illuminating case examples with carefully structured theological and clinical proposals for sensitive multi-faith care. Both comprehensive and accessible, this will be an important textbook for beginning chaplains and pastoral counselors, and, as well, an up-to-the-minute resource for seasoned caregivers.”

Strange Worship

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Drew Strait offers important, practical guidelines for opposing Christian nationalism from a Christian framework. The metaphor of ‘strange worship’ is an apt description of the racist idolatry of white Christian nationalism and will be a helpful tool for Christians who want to understand and resist this toxic right-wing ideology that masquerades under the banner of ‘Christianity.’”

The Clergy Self

Church Leadership & Ministry

“one’s self in pastoral ministry. He brings practical wisdom from long experience as both pastor and therapist. Key insights include emphasizing being over doing, maintaining healthy boundaries, and cultivating empathy and emotional intelligence—attributes that apply not only to healthy ministering but also to thriving in both professional and personal life.”

The Integrity of the Body of Christ

Church Leadership & Ministry

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Too Heavy a Yoke

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Too Heavy a Yoke is a much-needed, thoughtful, and nuanced examination of the 'Strong Black Woman' stereotype--a significant new contribution to multiple disciplines of pastoral care and counseling, psychology, sociology, African American and womanist-feminist studies, and constructive theology. Walker Barnes draws on both womanist and Trinitarian theologies to examine how the church can play a part in healing and liberating black women from 'the burden of strength.' Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book belongs on the shelf of every minister and pastoral counselor, and indeed every woman who knows in her soul the burdens of being a 'StrongBlackWoman.'”

When Violence Is No Stranger

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“When Violence is No Stranger addresses the long-neglected subject of acquaintance and date rape with sensitivity and insight. Drawing from in-depth interviews with survivors, Kristen Leslie weaves valuable information together with a theology of healing and hope. Her recommendations for pastoral practice are timely and needed! This book is a significant resource for clergy, counselors, and all who are committed to ending sexual violence.”