William L. Hathaway

Bonding with God

World Religions

“What is it like for believers to ‘bond with God’? The author provides a compelling account of this aspect of the spiritual life through a masterful use of attachment theory and other key psychological concepts. This is an exceptional and accessible work of applied psychology of religion. The author intersperses, among his theory and research, informed reflections, anecdotes from real spiritual journeys of people who shared their stories with him. In so doing, he brings to life the contours of a ‘caregiving faith’ to poignantly illustrate how a Christian’s relationship to God unfolds in interaction with God and others.”

Fishing for Eternity

Arts & Literature

“Kent Gramm seems to have revisited his youthful origins as a ‘flexible, romantic Lutheran’ who knows, nonetheless, that ‘Krishna is blue’ in this new collection of refreshingly public odes that meander meditatively through memory, reverie, and narrative like the ever-changing-unchanging native rivers he celebrates. These are poems of pure spirit.”

Gender Identity and Faith

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Gender Identity and Faith represents a sophisticated and highly competent approach to engaging a clinical niche rarely addressed with either sophistication or competence in all areas: clinical practice around the intersection of gender identity and religious concerns. The common impulse in this area is either to prioritize one area over the other (either religion or gender identity). The authors embrace an alternative client-centered approach. The text offers a practical outline of their treatment model with clear and persuasive rationales. This is not a polemical text aimed to fight in the gender identity culture wars or at presenting a theology of gender or gender identity. It is a standout resource text for Christian clinicians and other professionals who are attempting to help clients well navigate issues of personal religious faith and gender identity. It represents a best-practices example of Christian clinical and role integration in the mental health fields and is illustrated with rich case studies.”

Public Poems

Arts & Literature

“Currently, many publications bristle with a didactic public poetry that, though well-intentioned, is flawed by parochial righteousness. Kent Gramm’s public voice which regularly employs rhyming couplets or blank verse with an unabashed old school earnestness remains untainted by preachiness. I admire the genuine democracy found in Gramm’s public poems whose subjects range widely from the topical to the historical to the poignantly elegiac, resonating with biting Swiftian wit, pure humor, and Frostian wisdom. This fulsome collection is quite smart and much fun.”

Treatment of Childhood Disorders

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Hall and Flanagan's Treatment of Childhood Disorders represents a state-of-the-art engagement with evidence-based clinical child and adolescent psychology. It provides an extensive review of the related scientific psychopathology and treatment literature for each of the common disorders typically engaged in child psychopathology texts. This part of the work is done well enough to stand on its own as a useful survey of the field for clinicians and students in the mental health fields. Hall and Flanagan also address each area with thoughtful and informed analysis from both a developmental psychopathology and an integrative Christian perspective. The high-quality engagement with the influential literature in this specialty area is augmented by rich case examples that well illustrate the clinical issues and treatment approaches they cover. This will be an indispensable text for integrative Christian programs seeking to teach clinical child and adolescent psychology to graduate students. It also represents a valuable contribution for anyone in the broader field who seeks to culturally adapt evidenced-based clinical child and adolescent practice to Christian populations.”

Understanding Gender Dysphoria

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“The second edition of Understanding Gender Dysphoria preserves the creative, instructive, and pragmatic three lens framework of the first but with added nuance and cutting-edge updates on this rapidly evolving clinical and societal area. As cultural tensions around gender issues and transgenderism have increased, the need for a theologically, clinically, and scientifically competent exposition of the related topics has only intensified. Mark A. Yarhouse's text remains the standout Christian resource for this purpose.”