Product Description: It can be difficult for individuals and faith communities to see how faith's wisdom can be a resource for the complex moral and religious questions of our time. Faith's Wisdom for Daily Living takes up the challenge of moving between doctrine and everyday life...read more

Product Description: This book is the product of the Parents and Friends Association of the California School of the Blind. It is a collection of favorite recipes from the parents, staff, faculty, students and friends of the school. Proceeds from its sale support activities and services that help enrich the lives of the students...read more

Product Description: Married and family life around the world has undergone a revolution in the last several decades: the radical democratization of intimacy in spousal and parent-child relationships. Previous principles of hierarchy, inequality, and duty that defined the relationships between husband, wife, and children have been challenged and often replaced by more fluid bonds of equality, intimacy, emotional self-disclosure, communication, and mutual trust...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "For Many today, being a man still means to keep our distance, ignore pain, overcome fear, swallow our tears, keep our options open, and maintains an upper hand whenever we can. These are the old myths that continue to whisper and shout...read more

Bringing together two of our greatest sources of meaning and transformationThis book marries two partners that are made for each other. The result, as in all good unions, is mutual enrichment and deeper life.--Jack Shea, author of Stories of GodNow available in paperback, this moving and enlightening book presents us with a compelling vision of what can happen when we take the opportunity to connect stories and rituals--a vision of individuals and communities transformed through a deeper sense of connection to our loved ones, our communities, and God. Herbert Anderson and Edward Foley reveal how when stories and rituals work together, they have the potential to be both mighty and dangerous--mighty in their ability to lift us up and help us make these connections beyond ourselves and dangerous in challenging us to learn to live with complexity and contradiction.They show how much more meaningful a baptism, wedding, or funeral can be when liturgy is made to include and recognize the personal stories of those involved. Suddenly, these familiar life-cycle rituals are infused with new life as their participants become connected in a narrative web linking past and present, human and divine. Newly created rituals can also help us connect our stories to the divine story, giving meaning to what we experience and bringing us closer to God. Ministers, worship leaders, and pastoral caregivers can use this approach to storytelling and ritual to find ways to bring together worship and pastoral care, diminishing fragmentation and fostering coherence in their religious communities. (view table of contents)

Explores the many aspects of living alone

Product Description: This encyclopedic volume brings clarity and focus to a multitude of family issues. The expert contributors deal with practical and important questions, thereby providing information of significant usefulness to social workers, therapists, lawyers, ministers, and health care professionals...read more

Product Description: Can one live alone and be whole? The authors of this book are clear that the answer is "yes". It is how we live our lives and not whether we live them with another person that matters most to God. Here is a practical and wise guide for those alone in life. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Marriage is a pilgrimage; a journey characterized by beginnings and endings as the life cycle of a particular family evolves. This timely and important book addresses how relationships need o be refocused when couples face changes such as the launching of young adult children, job change, the death of a parent or a child, the arrival of a "surprise" child, infidelity, retirement, illness, role change or reversal, and many others...read more

Discusses child rearing, identifies children's needs, and outlines the support church and society should provide

Product Description: "This work... is a delightful mix of sophisticated theology, solid family systems theory, and clear, practical guidelines for pastors, all illustrated by numerous wonderful stories".----Charles W. Taylor, Professor of Pastoral Theology, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley California...read more

Product Description: In this book, Herbert Anderson and Kenneth R. Mitchell demonstrate that leaving home is a significant part of forming an individual identity and a natural aspect of maturing. It is also a lifelong process, but one that is desirable and appropriate for both the one who leaves and the ones left behind...read more

Product Description: Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including the origins and dynamics of grief, loss throughout life, caring for those who grieve, and the theology of grieving...read more