Healing Congregations: Nurturing Love, Life, and Hope in a Hurting World
Healing Congregations is a resource book that is a dialogue among people of faith who have encountered adversity and found life, love, and hope in their faith and spiritual traditions and in the relationships that carried them through hard times. It is a book that can be used for a religious education group, a women’s or men’s group, a theological reflection group to help us better see, share and connect to the practices and stories that we are already living that create love, life and hope in a hurting world.
Healing Congregations is made up of stories–real stories that the authors told each other–and dialogue among fictionalized characters that draw from real conversations that we had as a writing team.
It’s an invitation to you to also speak the ways that God lives in the midst of our suffering and adversity, trusting that we can be the bearers of that love, life and hope as we practice our faith together.
This is not a “how-to” tool kit. The book is an invitation into a journey of discovery–an invitation into your own conversations of wrestling with hard questions about how struggle, life, love, and hope connect.
There are lots of ways to encounter this book.
- Download a copy.
- Use our Discussion Companions to guide your conversations and study.
- Listen to the stories or dip into video clips.
- Learn more about the Three Streams of thought that have guided our conversations. Explore the powerful space where Hurt and Hope meet.