Pastoral Ministry category: 1680 books
Four-Footed Ministers in Formation
A Training Manual on Dog Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
This work provides chaplains/directors of spiritual/pastoral care with a template for the setup, implementation, and maintenance of a comprehensive, all-volunteer program for the integration of canine companions into the spiritual/pastoral care of patients/residents in healthcare facilities. Based...
Pastoral Bearings
Lived Religion and Pastoral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
The study of lived religion is an enterprise which attempts to elucidate how 'ordinary' men and women in all times and places draw on religious behavior, media, and meanings to make sense of themselves and their world. Through the influence of liberation theology and postmodernism, pastoral theologians_like...
Nurturing Hope
Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Trends and skills for those who offer pastoral care
Christian pastoral care has changed a great deal in the past few decades in response to many factors in our rapidly changing world. In part 1 of Nurturing Hope, Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care--shifts in who delivers pastoral...
Pastoral Identity as Social Construction
Pastoral Identity in Postmodern, Intercultural, and Multifaith Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
How do chaplains and counselors form their identities as "pastoral" caregivers in challenging clinical contexts such as institutional, interdisciplinary, postmodern, inter-cultural, and multi-faith work environments? This book is a product of the fifteen-year-long journey towards answering...
Performing Pastoral Care
Music as a Framework for Exploring Pastoral Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Making the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music. Using musical analogies, the author provides a new way of understanding and practising pastoral care, grounded in practical theology. Challenging overemphasis on mission,...
Non-Religious Pastoral Care
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
This ground-breaking book is a guide to non-religious pastoral care practice in healthcare, prisons, education, and the armed forces in the UK. It brings a new perspective to our understanding of care services traditionally offered by chaplaincy departments. The book charts the progress from a Christian...
A Center in the Cyclone
Twenty-first Century Clergy Self-Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Pastors today are overwhelmed by the perfect storm of too many responsibilities, too few resources, and too rapid congregational, cultural, and technological changes. Many of them confess that the cares of modern ministry have nearly choked the life out of their holy service. Here is a resource for...
On Pastoring
A Short Guide to Living, Leading, and Ministering as a Pastor
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
From one pastor to another...
No one is ever fully prepared for the ministry. For pastors just starting out, those needing a little rebalancing, or those growing tired in the trenches, a short guide to the basics is a welcome relief.
In On Pastoring, H. B. Charles gives 30 instructive...
The Power of Team Leadership
Achieving Success Through Shared Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Most leadership in today’s churches comes from “solo practitioners”--individuals who bear the burden of providing all the direction the ministry they direct requires. Inevitably, this results not only in burned-out leaders, but underutilized lay people who merely attend and observe rather than...
The Effective Pastor
A Practical Guide to the Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
What can I say to parents who have lost an infant? Where do I find the time to be a good pastor and a loving husband and father too? These are just some of the tough questions most pastors ask at one time or another. And the answers don't come easy. Robert Anderson's practical guide to the pastoral...
Building Bridges, Not Walls - Construyamos puentes, no muros
Nourishing Diverse Cultures in Faith – Alimentar a las diversas culturas en la fe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Are you a leader, clergy or lay, in a Catholic parish wrestling with how to bridge the multiple ethnic, linguistic, and racial communities that increasingly comprise your parish? With these cultural backgrounds frequently come diverse perspectives on everything from how to communicate with each other...
Divine Worship and Human Healing
Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Would many believers consider a wake or funeral an act of worship? What does it mean to say that in anointing the sick or administering Viaticum to the dying humans are healed? Such questions plumb the biblical and traditional depths of the paschal mystery. Just as Jesus' ministry at the social-religious...
by Diego Mesa
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Churches today are characterized by problems, errors, and frustrations resulting from misunderstandings, misinterpretations, negligence, ignorance, and naiveté. It is a lack of protocol within the church itself as well as the body of Christ that has weakened the church in this way.Wouldn’t...
Supervising and Supporting Ministry Staff
A Guide to Thriving Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Surveys of pastoral staff repeatedly show that senior or supervising pastors consistently rate their working relationships with their associate staff members higher than do the associate staff members. Satisfaction levels follow similar patterns. In many cases, supervisors are not aware of or attentive...