Patricia Howery Davis

Living Stories

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Living Stories is a refreshing challenge to a church context in which the ministry of counseling is more and more being relegated to the certified professional. Donald Capps provides a thoughtful framework for revisioning counseling through a careful integration of biblical insights, individual and family systems models of therapy, and his own use of delightful and challenging narratives. This book will be an invaluable help for ministers and lay counselors—showing how to notice and to hear stories, how to listen carefully to their contexts and meanings, and how to begin to reclaim the counseling process as an essential aspect of ministry.”