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Stumbling into Life's Lessons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

Stumbling into Life's Lessons

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-08-27
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

Interested in integrating spirituality into your busy, professional life? This collection of brief reflections will be worth stumbling upon. Stumbling into Lifes Lessons is a collection of essay written by Louis F. Kavar as he moved from a fast-paced life in administration to a life characterized by more focused spiritual practices. Themes explored in Stumbling into Lifes Lessons include: Role of spirituality in personal growth Spiritual understanding of ecology and environment Integration of spiritual practices in rhythm with a professional life Challenges from slowing the pace of life. After traveling two-thirds of each month working in international development and holding a series of demanding administrative positions, Dr. Lou Kavar realized that his life needed to change. Following twelve years of fast-paced professional life, Dr. Kavar moved to the Southwest to live a more intentional and mindful life marked by spiritual practice and reflection. Stumbling into Lifes Lessons invites you to integrate spirituality into your daily life and create positive changes enhancing your quality of living.

Equal Rites
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Equal Rites

Equal Rites is a much-needed collection of worship services, ceremonies, and celebrations that is attuned to the unique needs of sexual minorities. The selections, written primarily by lesbians and gay men, include rites of spiritual beginnings, healing, blessings, holy communion, and pride and empowerment. Also included are funeral memorial services and seasonal and holiday rites for couples. More than a collection, Equal Rites can also serve as a reference book for creating unique and meaningful worship services that address significant aspects of lesbian and gay spirituality.

The Good Road
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

The Good Road

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-11
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

In the maze of information available today on personal and spiritual development, one book provides a clear map for this vital aspect of life’s journey: The Good Road. Author, lecturer and therapist Dr. Louis F. Kavar provides clear explanations, practical exercises, and time-honored wisdom for those seeking to develop the spiritual dimension of their lives. Spiritual practices are considered for simple integration in the busiest 21st century life. Stories of those whose lives have been transformed by traveling the good road illustrate the value of making this journey. While including insights from Buddhist, Christian, and Native American traditions, The Good Road provides the tools to make the journey of the spiritual life from one’s own experience. The Good Road is a solid foundation for those who want to make the spiritual life their own.

Tending the Flock
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Tending the Flock

Many churches are unprepared to face the challenges inherent in family life today. Others, though, have developed innovative and exciting responses. In this book, case studies provide insights and strategies to help develop a practical theological perspective on family ministry. This new perspective represents a fresh and powerful witness to the place of families within contemporary communities of faith. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.

Grieving the Death of a Friend
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Grieving the Death of a Friend

A thoughtful guide to getting through the loss of a friend.

AIDS and the Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

AIDS and the Church

"The authors provide important new information about the changing evolution of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the persons it is affecting, and its global impact. . . . Most important, it presents a compassionate and prophetic vision of what the church's response ought to be. . . ".--James B. Nelson, Professor of Christian Ethics, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minnesota.

The Integrated Self
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

The Integrated Self

Contemporary research supports the importance of spirituality for mental health. Counselors, social workers, psychologists and other therapists wonder how to include spirituality in treatment. Mental health training and current treatment models do not equip clinicians to adequately address the topic of spirituality. The Integrated Self presents a model for identifying and assessing spirituality within the client’s own life and experience. By operationally defining spirituality as a dimension of the client’s experience, The Integrated Self explores the role of culture, values, beliefs, and lifestyle for understanding the spiritual dimension of the person. Using case studies, clinicians le...

After the Wrath of God
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

After the Wrath of God

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

After the Wrath of God is the first book to tell the story of American religion and the AIDS epidemic. Petro argues that AIDS effected a shift in Christian rhetoric regarding sexuality.

The Practice of Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

The Practice of Love

A master class in relationship repair and connection. At its core, this book delivers an inconvenient truth. Our relationships have to be a daily practice if we want them to thrive. We should treat them like we treat anything that we want to succeed, by giving them time and attention. For far too long it has been assumed that we should innately understand how to love one another. Relationships have fallen into the category of things we should know how to do. But we are not born knowing how to make a relationship work, any more than we are born knowing how to file taxes or buy insurance, and there are no classes in high school or college that teach us how to do this. The Practice of Love is t...

Biblical Counsel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 842

Biblical Counsel

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