Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World
10 best books like Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World (Serene Jones): Trail of Lightning, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation, God of the Oppressed (This Gift Edition, Printed In), The Blood of Emmett Till, The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong, The Angry Christian: A Theology for Care and Counseling, Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care, A Black Theology of Liberation
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.
Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer....
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
| Author | Maxwell King |
| ISBN | 1419727729 |
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| ISBN | 0670785938 |
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation
| Author | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
| ISBN | 1608465624 |
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives...
God of the Oppressed (This Gift Edition, Printed In)
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 1570751587 |
God of the Oppressed remains a landmark in the development of Black Theology—the first effort to present a systematic theology drawing fully on the resources of African-American religion and culture. Responding to the criticism that his previous books drew too heavily on Euro-American definitions...
| Author | Timothy B. Tyson |
| ISBN | 1476714843 |
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about...
The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong
Meet people who have fled their homelands.
Hagar. Joseph. Ruth. Jesus.
Here is a riveting story of seeking safety in another land. Here is a gripping journey of loss, alienation, and belonging. In The God Who Sees, immigration advocate Karen Gonzalez recounts her family’s migration...
The Angry Christian: A Theology for Care and Counseling
| Author | Andrew D. Lester |
| ISBN | 0664225195 |
In this work, respected scholar Andrew Lester discusses and incorporates the newest behavioral research models, contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, constructivist philosophy, and narrative theory into a comprehensive pastoral theology of anger. In revisiting through the...
Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care
| Author | Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook |
| ISBN | 0800662350 |
Pastoral care is often focused on individual problems, but much of what harms and impedes us stems from the larger social maladies at work in our lives. This unprecedented gathering of two dozen essays discusses the realities of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism prevalent...
A Black Theology of Liberation
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 0883446855 |
"Any message that is not related to the liberation of the poor in a society is not Christ's message. Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology."
With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology...
The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach
| Author | Carrie Doehring |
| ISBN | 0664226841 |
Drawing on psychological, theological, and cultural studies on suffering, Carrie Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through trifocal lenses and include approaches that are premodern (apprehending God through religious rituals), modern (consulting rational and empirical...
Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development and Its Interruption
| Author | Donald Kalsched |
| ISBN | 0415681456 |
In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)--this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including...
Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
| Author | Ted Smith |
| ISBN | 0804793301 |
Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view,...
Christ for Unitarian Universalists: A New Dialogue with Traditional Christianity
| Author | Scotty McLennan |
| ISBN | 1558967729 |
Christ for Unitarian Universalists is an engaging and thoughtful inquiry into Christianity for Unitarian Universalists and other spiritual seekers--including skeptics, non-religious people, liberal Christians, and those who consider themselves "spiritual but not religious." The book has...
She: Five Keys to Unlock the Power of Women in Ministry
| Author | Karoline Lewis |
| ISBN | 1501804944 |
We are not all the same. The time has come for us to honestly name the ways we are different and similar so that we can serve together in unity, grace and trust.
Women in ministry experience unique challenges in their church settings which continue to hinder their vocational, professional,...
Handbook of U.S. Theologies of Liberation
| Author | Miguel A. de la Torre |
| ISBN | 0827214634 |
The purpose of this handbook is to introduce the reader to Christian concepts from the perspective of U.S. marginalized communities. It explores the interrelationship between religion, community, and culture in the social context of marginalized groups rooted in African American, Amerindian,...
Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community
| Author | Leah Gunning Francis |
The shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, reignited a long-smoldering movement for justice, with many St. Louis-area clergy stepping up to support the emerging young leaders of today's Civil Rights Movement. Seminary professor Leah Gunning Francis was among the activists, and...
Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women's Theology
| Author | Pui-Lan Kwok |
| ISBN | 1570758808 |
In 1988 Virginia Fabella from the Philippines and Mercy Amba Oduyoye from Ghana coedited With Passion and Compassion: Third world Women Doing Theology, based on the work of the Women's Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT). The book has been widely used as an...
Power in the Blood?: The Cross in the African American Experience
| Author | Joanne Marie Terrell |
| ISBN | 1597523534 |
Can the gospel message of the Atonement have a liberative message for black Christians? Is there, indeed, "power in the blood of Jesus"? This study of the meaning of the cross in the African American religious experience is both comprehensive and powerful: comprehensive because it explores the meaning...
| Author | Ashley Antoinette |
| ISBN | 1601622635 |
From bestselling author Antoinette comes the gritty, harrowing tale of a young woman who finds herself drawn to a seductive street hustler who will be the death of her.
In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign...
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
| Author | Emilie M. Townes |
| ISBN | 1403972737 |
In this brilliant book, Emilie Townes analyzes popular cultural images of black women (the welfare queen, the mammy, the tragic mulatta, etc.) as a way of developing a Christian Womanist theoethic. Covering wide-ranging issues from Empire, globalism, reparations, economic justice, gender theory,...
The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource
Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California's water infrastructure and ecosystems,...
