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In Their Own Words: Stories of Healing & Practices for the Church
The purpose of this project was twofold: 1) to research how the church community can be a place of healing in people's lives, and 2) to suggest practices that when enacted would help a church to be a place of healing. Church life was differentiated into three levels: Pastorally, Relationally, and Congregationally. A group of people were interviewed who had received some type of healing and their lives and were asked to share how the church community helped in the healing process. Based off of the information gathered in the interviews, practices were suggested for the church at each of the three levels of church life.
Marriage Views
Married? Thinking about it or just want to understand the complexity of marriage? In short-story format, Marriage Views delivers firsthand examples of eighteen different viewpoints of marriage. It shows how couples deal with conflict, and it provides relevant Biblical verses to help support each couple. Inspired by real-life issues, these stories provide insight into a variety of different marital situations, such as sex, money, infidelity, disrespect, love, trust, and in-laws. In the story, And the Academy Award Goes To, Randy and Debra appear to be the perfect couple, but in private, their relationship is fraught with violence. Money problems plague newlywed couple Calvin and Rita in the s...
The Ruthless Garden
Novel set in a small town in South Australia's riverland. Lovers Athena and Sam engage in a power struggle while trying to 'tame' the wilderness which the original inhabitants, the Ngawait Aborigines, saw as an abundant garden. The author was awarded the inaugural Angus & Robertson Bookworld Prize in 1993 for this, her first novel.
Blind Trust
This is a story about a young girl, who was very little and often was running to a restroom for unknown reasons. Later she finds out she has a disease called ulcerative colitis. Not really knowing much about this so called disease, she tried to live her life as if nothing was wrong with her. She was in and out of hospitals for many years and still insisted she was going to live a happy normal life. One day a new doctor came into her life and he was about to make everything come to a stop. Everything she had been thinking was being closed off by the words she was hearing from him. One morning she was laying in a hospital bed reading a book and her parents and doctor came in her room and sat d...
The Wages of Sin
Without question, some of the situations I'd gotten myself in don't paint a pretty picture of the Laura Bradley-Hutchins that I used to be. But today, I'm a different person. Besides, whatever I did in my past doesn't make me any worse than anybody else. Show me a perfect person in this messed-up world? Some might say that I deserted my kids, but I say I only did what I thought was best for them at the time. Label my decision how you see fit, but at least, I didn't hurt my children or kill them like some stressed out mothers have done who don't feel that they have a place to go for help. I knew for certain that I couldn't go to Alex's parents and tell them the truth about what was happening in what appeared to be our 'perfect" household. You see, the real deal was, Alex's parents thought he could do no wrong. He was the only college-educated child they had, and he was filthy rich by their estimation. His parents weren't going to turn on him and support me, since Alex moved them from the most dangerous projects in Atlanta.
Dust and Diamonds
Dana Hutton thought her life was perfect. She was very wealthy and engaged to marry a famous movie star. She was envied everywhere she went; everywhere, that is, except for the small and sleepy Midwestern town of Riverdale. It was here that she was stranded while on her way west to plan her wedding. Being a lady of high society accustomed to city life, she refused to have anything to do with the unsophisticated farmers that lived in the rural town. She shunned them and their advice, getting herself into a few predicaments in which only they could help her out. Even when she ridiculed and snubbed them, they still helped her. They still cared about her. Why was that? Even when she finally got out of the town, she was still wondering what made the townspeople so different. Why were they so caring? Her journey most certainly doesn't end there. She finds out what overall makes the difference in people's hearts, and why one sleepy little town can draw like a magnet and change the course of a person's life, forever.
The Megachurch and the Mainline
Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded? Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson’s The Megachurch and the Mainline provides new understandings of the transformation of spiritual traditions. For Ellingson, these particular congregations typify a new typ...
Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology
Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians is a practical guide for the growing number of mental-health practitioners searching for information on treatments that combine psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation. Research shows that combined approaches are among the most effective ways to treat an increasing number of psychiatric disorders. However, though these combined treatments are becoming the everyday practice of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental-health professionals, identifying the right treatment plan can be notoriously difficult, and clinicians are often left scrambling to answer questions about how to design and customize their treatment strategies. In Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology, readers will find these questions fully addressed and the answers explained, and they’ll come away from the book with a toolbox full of strategies for helping their patients improve symptoms, achieve remission, and stay well using a combination of drug and psychological treatments.
In His Very Steps
Everyone thought someone was doing what needed to be done to help the poor and needy, but people were slipping through the cracks. A mother and her children are overlooked, and a child dies. Written for those who believe the Bible is the ultimate authority in all issues of life, this group of Christians feel they totally blew it by replacing God's written instructions with the status quo. Wanting to not make that mistake again, the Reverend Jim Harter leads a faithful few to embark on a one-year Bible study to ensure they apply Christ's model of faith and obedience in all matters of faith, life, business, and love. Sound impossible? It will be without the Holy Spirit's help and a simple ques...
In the Shadow of Our Steeples
In the Shadow of Our Steeples: Pastoral Presence for Families Coping with Mental Illness helps you and other experts and quasi-experts in the field of religious and family counseling to give sound direction and guidance to family members who are caring for a loved one who suffers from mental illness. You'll find many avenues of care and counseling that will greatly enhance your ability to lend support and encouragement in situations where the burden of care seems too great for only a few individuals to lift. In reading it, you'll find your options increase tenfold, and you'll become a better symbol and resource of faith for these unique families.Inside In the Shadow of Our Steeples, you'll d...
