Sad Endings & Healthy Beginnings
…offers guidance when a congregation has experienced an unfortunate dissolution and desires both a healthy closure and steps to prepare for a healthy beginning for the next pastoral relationship.
Let’s Have Lunch
…celebrates the twenty-year journey that a group of clergy and their churches took in order to confront the toxic presence of racism in the community of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is a story of hope that begins with three people having lunch in the face of some debilitating tensions within their community in 1992.
an invitation to have lunch and be open to the unexpected and inspiring things that can happen
One Body of Christ
Step by step guidance is offered to engage a church’s membership and how to engage in a fun connection with other churches across the world.
Being a Pastor in an Anxious Society
is a guide for how people can have the courage of faith and take risks in ministry within the community of faith. It trusts that the call of God is a valid response in our lives
Racism and God’s Invitation
Adapt the lessons of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to enable the church, Black and White, to honestly explore the power of
- CONFESSION and
- FORGIVENESS
Healthy Clergy Make Healthy Congregations
offers practical plans for how judicatories, churches, and clergy can nurture six aspects of clergy health–physical, emotional, family, financial, spiritual, and vocational health.
Using Fiction
This book shows you how to use writing fiction to enable both individuals and groups to explore challenging issues in a way that can build rather than divide communities.
Always a New Beginning
Every loss contains an experience of pain and sadness because something we value is gone. It also contains the seeds of the gift of God’s presence and God’s love for us. The booklet includes a step by step process by which we can be honest about our pain but also anticipate the possible gift of something new.
Is There Salvation in the Church
Having examined the truth that God’s power is made perfect in our weakness, the book provides a five-part seminar to build confidence among members to engage in conversation with those who have been separated from the church but have a spiritual hunger for something more.