The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

A Loving Home

“Dr. Lee Butler has written an important work that every minister engaged in Pastoral Care needs to read. He provides culturally specific tools, hints, suggestions, and resources for working with families using love as the guiding principle and the foundation upon which meaningful Pastoral Care is built. His book is a must read for any and everyone in ministry who is serious about working with families from a position of cultural strengths and not from the usual 'deficit' model that has crippled so many African American families. I highly endorse his work, his scholarship, his insights, his sensitivity, his experience, and his expertise as a minister of the Gospel whose integrity is awesome.”

Revive Your Mainline Congregation

Church Leadership & Ministry

“At last there comes a tool to help pastors and lay leaders of mainline Protestant churches to understand the importance in moving congregations from the mentality of 'surviving' to 'thriving!' A mainline church no longer has to be 'cold and dead.' No longer do we have to be seen as the 'frozen chosen!' We can be true to our intellectual heritage and love God with all our minds, while at the same time loving God with all of our hearts! Robert Schieler brings back together the Hellenistic split of dualism, which separated thinking from feeling. This work is a 'must' for mainline Protestants who want to be obedient to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to the leadings of the Great Shepherd of the Sheep.”