Pastoral Care
Transgendering Faith: Identity, Sexuality, And Spirituality
Transgendering Faith is a resource to help churches respond with love and care to transgender people in our society, both those within the Christian community and those who find themselves--unhappily--outside its doors. It is also a book for transgender Christians,...
Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People And Their Families
This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families views...
All Whom God Has Joined: Resources for Clergy and Same-Gender Loving Couples
With a foreword by the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, All Whom God Has Joined: Resources for Clergy and Same-Gender Loving Couples provides a unique collection of liturgical and ceremonial resources, as well as pastoral care tools and insights, on same-sex covenanting...
Coming Out through Fire: Surviving the Trauma of Homophobia
Coming Out through Fire is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons who seek to move through the trauma of homophobia with the passion and power of transformation. It is also for pastors, therapists, and other helping professionals who seek to confront...
Pastoral Care of Gays, Lesbians, and their Families
This book, written by a pastoral theologian with years of experience in counseling gay and lesbian individuals and their families, assist both pastoral caregivers and congregations in examining and enhancing their pastoral care of homosexuals and their families. This...
Counseling Lesbian Partners
This resource for counselors who work with lesbian couples gives a clear assessment of the issues faced in working through their relationship within the context of their sexuality and society's oppression of lesbians. The purpose of the Counseling and Pastoral...
Sex In The Parish
Karen Lebacqz and Ronald Barton examine the gift of sexuality in relation to the parish and the dynamics of sexual desire and temptation. Included in this book are the expreiences of a pastor who did not set appropriate limits; explainations of how the pastoral role...
Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk: LGBT Pastoral Care
This practical pastoral care handbook, written by two self-described queer people of faith, covers the basic skills that religious caregivers and ministry students need in order to be effective, enlightened, and supportive pastoral care providers to LGBTQ persons in...
For The Bible Tells Me So
For the Bible Tells Me So is a compassionate and insightful documentary about the contemporary face of an old conflict between Christian fundamentalists and gay and lesbian people. The film looks deep into the hearts of several families--a few of them quite...