Family Resources Books

Publisher's Description: Everyone is talking today about the centrality of family values. Here is a volume which provides a thorough treatment of religious education for the family, in the family, and of the family. The distinctiveness of this book is that it is the most comprehensive book available on family religious education. It gives you the finest theories, best research data, and most workable practices. Major features include helpful treatment on how to build strong religious families, how to work with traditional and nontraditional families, how to promote family communication, and theology of the family.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Biblical and Theological Foundations of Marriage and the Family--David K. Clark 2. Religion and the Family--Daniel N. McIntosh and Bernard Spilka 3. Parenting and Religious Education--Donald Ratcliff 4. The Family Redefined--Richard J. Stellway 5. The Diverse-Traditional Family--Blake J. Neff 6. Family Communication--Blake J. Neff 7. Dysfunction, Healing, and the Family of Origin--Jon R. Harris 8. Family Ministry Methods--James W. White 9. Evaluating the Family Religious Education Program 10. The Future of Family Religious Education

The senior editor is former President of Vennard College, and is junior author of The Complete Guide to Religious Education Volunteers.

Gloria Durka of Fordham University and editor of Family Ministry writes: "This book is a treasure. In one volume the best research on family religious education plus many specific suggestions."

Myron Augsburger, former president of Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities and author of Pilgrim Aflame says: "Skillfully blends biblical studies, theology, psychology, sociology, and educational practice."

Armond M. Nicholi Jr. of Harvard Medical School and author of Changes in the American Family states: "Provides clear and practical guidelines on how to keep the family intact and heal! thy."

Fox's book is a field researcher's report about the effects of Channel One on kids. Using a tape recorder to document the words, the author collects convincing anecdotal evidence, then offers a good analysis of it. Kids today may well know the glittering surfaces and superficialities of ads -- the slogans and the celebrities -- but this book reminds us that kids are still kids: very naive, uncritical, and innocent about the ways of the world of persuasion. Fox elicits and records the comments of children as they talk about the ads they've seen on Channel One as part of this nationwide captive audience of over 8 million kids in classrooms, in a valuable locale and "day-part." Of special interest is the author's analysis of the kids' deep involvement in these ads, and of the many ways they incorporate and "replay" these ad messages. This book should be required reading -- and reflection --for every teacher, administrator, and school board member who is responsible for allowing Channel One into their classrooms.

This Book is very easy to work with and at the same time so helpful when I have to do my lesson planning, now that I'm moving to the upper level as a teacher of a Pre-Toddlers class,I bought to my self the Toddlers Book of course. I strongly recommend this book and you will have covered all the skills that your Baby or class has to develop by his/her first year.

Leike S. Michelow
Lead teacher Infant Class.

Excellent book! Not only great for dealing with grief in the workplace, but grief in general....I highly recommend.

Introduction: Working Together to Listen and Learn (Catherine Clark Kroeger); Part 1 -- All the Hurting; Chap 1 -- Power, Patriarchy, and Abusive Marriages (Cynthia Ezell); The Burden of Inequality; History of Patriarchy; Marital Violence; The Battered Wife; The Battering Husband; The Role of Culture; The Role of Religion; Marital Rape; Gender Inequality and Marital Rape; Role of Religion in Marital Rape; Treatment Issues for Therapists and Pastoral Counselors; Implications for Religious Leaders; Justice, Equality, Intimacy; Chap 2 -- When Right Becomes Scriptural Abuse (Melissa Kubitschek Ezell); The Husband as Spiritual Leader of the Family; Sacrificial Love; Total Acceptance; Conclusion; Chap 3 -- Battered Christian Women (Elizabeth Pearson); Religion and Battering; Surveying Battered Women; The Need for Response: Ministers and Church Leaders, The Church Community, Health-Care Providers, Therapists; Chap 4 -- Testimony of an Abuse Survivor (Lydia); Chap 5 -- Reflections of an Abuse Survivor (Marge Cox); Chap 6 -- Christian Men Who Hate Women (Margaret Josephson Rinck); Chap 7 -- The Silent Killer of Christian Marriages (Amy Wildman White); The Characteristics of Emotional Abuse; The Traits of an Abusive Husband; The Traits of an Emotionally Abused Wife; Responses to Emotionally Abusive Marriages; Chap 8 -- The Evangelical Family Is Sacred, but Is It Safe? (Nancy Nason-Clark); The Response of Christian Churches to Wife Abuse; Evangelical Churches and Abuse: Signs of Sensitivity; The Experience of Pastors in Counseling Abuse Victims; The Informal Support Network; Churchwomen's Response to the Transition House Movement; Challenges to Seeing Church Sensitivity: Giving the Violence a Name, Reconciling Abuser and Abused, Making Few Referrals, Preaching Reluctantly Against Wife Abuse, Interpreting Abuse in Families of Faith; Making the Church a Safe Place: Recognize That Abuse Exists, Identify the Unique Role of the Pastoral Counselor, Ensure That Victimized Women Are Offered Choices, Support Violence-Free Family Living, Build Bridges to the Community; Part 2 -- And the Healing; Chap 9 -- Sexual Abuse Survivors in the Church (Diane Strong Nesheim); My Story; Wolves in Sheep's Clothing; Issues That Contribute to Abuse: Headship and Submission, Misinterpretation or Selective Use of Scripture, Obedience to Authority; Hindrances to Healing from Abuse: Faith or Magical Thinking? Simplistic Answers, Loss of or Misplaced Trust, Guilt Reinforced, Denial of Feelings, Virtue in Self-Denial, Suffering as Payment for Sin, Virginity Upheld; The Church's Role in the Healing Process: Allowing the Expression of Anger and Rage, Offering Forgiveness, Seeing the Family as It Really Is, Using Alternative Images for God; Transformed Christian Communities, Christian Education, Reinterpreting Scripture, Training for Clergy, Seeking Justice;

Chap 10 -- "God, I Hate You"; "Sally, I Love You" (Pamela C. Court); The Case of Sally; The Push to Religious Conformity; Gender Issues; Anger at Her Family; Sally's Issue with God; The Use of Imprecatory Therapy; Chap 11 -- From Victim to Survivor and Beyond (Anne Findlay Chamberlain); What Is Sexual Abuse? Who Are the Victims of Abuse? Who Are the Abusers? The Journey of Healing; The Effects of Abuse: Emotional Effects, Physical Effects, Sexual Effects, Relational Effects, Spiritual Effects; Guidelines for Survivors: The Choice to Heal, Paradigm Shift, Regaining a Voice, Get Safe, Trust Your Intuition, Learn to Love Yourself, Learn to Love Your Body, Learn to Love the Inner Child, Find Healing Communities and Rituals, Learn Balance; How Others Can Help Survivors: Spouses, Family and Friends, The Church; Chap 12 -- Group Work with Evangelical Abused Wives (Mary Williams); The Literature; Hindrances to Stopping Abuse; Lack of Awareness; Group Work: Problems, The Format; Conclusions; Chap 13 -- A Theological Analysis of Hierarchicalism (Joan Tyvoll); Made in the Image of God; A Social Theory of the Trinity; Social Trinity and Creation; Hierarchicalism Enters with the Fall; Authentic Power and Secular Power; Hierarchicalism as the Secular Power Structure; God and Hierarchicalism in the Old and New Testaments; The Body of Christ -- the Model for the Community; Exposing the Evil of Hierarchicalism; The Roots of the Conflict; Hierarchicalism Dims the Glory of God; Hierarchicalism and Women; A Better Way; Chap 14 -- Disputing the Excuse for Abuse (Andrew C. Perriman); The Metaphorical Sense of Kephale; I Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:23; The Argument about Submission in Ephesians 5:21-24; Other Passages That Address Subordination; Conclusions; Conclusion -- What Can the Church Do? (James R. Beck); Respond to Abuse as Jesus Would; Root Out Abuse; Educate the Congregation; Understand the Relationship between Abuse and Misuse of Authority; Create a Healing Environment in the Church Appendix -- Some Biblical Thoughts for Abused Women

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Here is a fascinating, multi-authored approach to providing and maintaining health within a community. Carefully written, beautifully illustrated and creatively done, this volume guides communities toward an exploration of health-giving habits and practices.

Whether we view meaningful change as a social challenge, an individual issue, or from a highly spiritualized perspective, there is material here that speaks to us within our varied traditions. Rather than arguing cause and effect, the authors instead persuade us to move together toward health by coming together as a community for worship and learning.

Using a systems/systemic approach, the authors weave a compelling case for community-based pastoral care, guided by shared understandings of our mutual connection in Christ.

Well-written and wonderfully done.

Dr. David Frisbie, Executive Director
The Center for Marriage & Family Studies
Author of: Moving Forward After Divorce: Practical Steps to * Healing Your Hurts * Finding Fresh Perspective * Managing Your New Life

This book is an excellent resource for any clinician who works with children or adolescents that are treated with psychiatric medications. This book contains individual, up-to-date medication handouts for parents/teachers and for youth. This text also includes a DVD that allows for these hand-outs to printed in PDF format. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone who prescribes psychiatric medication to children and adolescents.

The Hidden Mission Field is an excellent resource to help the church leadership begin and build a Single Parent Family Ministry with simplcity. It offers Biblical foundation, real-life experiences, and practical advice. It also addresses the concerns of church leadership in a respectful and logical manner. I would recommend it to both those with a burden for single parents and church leadership.

I was highly satisfied with the Bible and was pleased that it arrived in such a timely manner!