Rev. Jurgen Schwing

Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Injustice and Care for the Soul is a powerful and timely resource that meets a moment of reckoning within the field as national pastoral and spiritual care bodies strive to become anti-racist, anti-bias, and social justice organizations. This book, by a wide diversity of authors who write with self-reflective awareness of their intersectional social locations, beautifully envisions pastoral care as gardening. The pastoral gardener lovingly tends to the well-being of each individual plant. At the same time, they know that when the soil has become toxic due to oppressive systems, they need to work toward radically changing the environment, or the garden and each plant will continue to suffer. This book is pastoral and spiritual rather than merely psychological or sociological by also acknowledging that the blooming of each plant ultimately is brought about by a transcendent or spiritual reality larger than ourselves that the wisdom traditions know by many names or by the emptiness of no name at all.”