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The Wounded Healer
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Henri J M Nouwen
Nouwen discusses how our own wounds can help us sympathize with those of others, and how we can understand that pain as a reflection of the suffering of our own time.
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Telling Secrets
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Frederick Buechner
Buechner explores the implications of his father's suicide on his own life and his relationship to his wife and children. He also acknowledges the healing power of facing up to tragedy, and the value of "telling secrets" as a way of coping with them.
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First We Have Coffee
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Margaret T Jensen
Stories of life as the daughter of a Scandinavian pastor in Canada.
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Father Arseny, 1893-1973: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father: Being the Narratives Compiled by the Servant of God Alexander Concerning His Spiritual Father
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Vera Bouteneff (Translator)
Gives stirring glimpses of Fr Arseny's life in a Soviet prison camp and tells the stories of whose lives were transfigured through their connection with him.
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Preaching Life
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Barbara Brown Taylor
In her bestselling preaching autobiography, Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church.
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Theirs is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America
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Robert D Lupton
Robert Lupton--educated and middle class--moved into a high crime area of Atlanta with the intention of bringing Christ's message into the ghetto. In this insightful and moving series of vignettes, he shows how his experiences there shattered many of his assumptions about himself and the nature of poverty in America.
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The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction
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Eugene H Peterson
Peterson, who has been gaining a growing reputation as a "pastor's pastor", speaks words of wisdom and refreshment for pastors caught in the busy-ness of preaching, teaching, and "running the church". Chapters include poetic reflections on the Beatitudes, advice on spiritual direction "between Sundays", and the language of prayer.
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Pastor
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William H Willimon
One of the great sources of discouragement for those in ordained ministry is the perception that they are alone. The challenges and difficulties they face seem all the larger for their frequent lack of mentors and friends with whom to discuss them. Yet, according to Willimon, a "cloud of witnesses" surrounds those in ordained ministry, forebears ...
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Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness
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Eugene H Peterson
In this book Peterson clarifies the pastoral vocation by turning to the book of Jonah, in which he finds a captivating, subversive story that can help pastors recover their "vocational holiness". Peterson probes the spiritual dimensions of the pastoral calling and seeks to reclaim the ground taken over by those who are trying to enlist pastors in ...
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God Underneath: Spiritual Memoirs of a Catholic Priest
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Edward L Beck
An open exploration of one priest's religiosity--including sexuality, poverty, and the validity of Church doctrines--put in liberal and encouraging terms.
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Papa's place
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Margaret T. Jensen
With her special wit, godly wisdom, and inviting warmth, bestselling storyteller Margaret Jensen shares a revealing story of her papa, who was mightily used by God despite his personal shortcomings. As a determined preacher, counselor, and friend, Papa reached out to others with a helping hand, a desire to share Christ, and an understanding heart. ...
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Here I Stand
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Roland Herbert Bainton
Here is an outstanding modern contribution to religious literature - a vivid portrait of the man who, because of his unshakable faith in his God, helped to bring about the Protestant Reformation.
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A Dresser of Sycamore Trees: The Finding of a Ministry
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Garret Keizer
A surprise critical sensation that brings to life everyday epiphanies of a lay minister in Northern Vermont. From winding the town clock to comforting elderly parishioners to riding with snoring veterans in the local Memorial Day Parade, Keizer explores the little-known pleasures, trials, and revelations of being a lay vicar in a small town "in ...
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Recalling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers
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Edward P Wimberly
Reconnect with your original call to ministry and passion for caregiving with this spiritual rene retreat in book form.Clergy and other professional religious caregivers routinely find that parishioners and clients expect from them a superhuman level of empathy and love - a level that embodies God's love. Many of these caregivers expect no less of ...
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Preaching and preachers
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D. M. Lloyd-Jones
Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a qualified physician who left medical practice to become a church minister. In his day, he was one of the most respected preachers in Britain. This reissued text is intended to bring his teachings to a new audience.
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Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
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Frederick Buechner
A celebrated author shares his personal and professional journey in this moving memoir. Buechner invites readers to listen to their own lives and "touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it". "Strikes to the heart. . . . Unpreachy meditations on life and Christianity at its most profound".--People Magazine.
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Ministerial Ethics: Moral Formation for Church Leaders
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Joe E Trull, James E Carter
"Ministerial Ethics" provides both new and experienced pastors with tools for sharpening their personal and professional decision-making skills. The authors seek to explain the unique moral role of the minister and the ethical responsibilities of the vocation and to provide "a clear statement of the ethical obligations contemporary clergy should ...
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Clergy Killers
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G Lloyd Rediger
Clergy Killers offers remedial strategies for pastors and congregations who want to protect themselves against the abuse of parishioners with personality disorders, mental illnesses, and mean streaks in situations that go well beyond mere church conflict.
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Baptists on the American Frontier
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Chester Raymond Young, John Taylor, Raymond John Taylor (Editor)
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Ministerial Ethics & Etiquette
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Nolan B Harmon
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A distant grief
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F. Kefa Sempangi, Barbara R. Thompson
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Gift and Mystery
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John Paul II
Pope John Paul II relates the origin and course of his call to the priesthood on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination. The book constitutes a kind of spiritual autobiography, beginning with boyhood in Poland to elevation to the office of Pope.
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Miracle in Darien
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Bob Slosser
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Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong.
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Herbert W. Armstrong
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Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
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Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
With this expose, The "Boston Globe" aims to present the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and emotional manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its long history of sexual abuse secret. The case of Father John Geoghan, who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and whose 130 victims have been awarded $30 ...
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