Denise Rector

Posts by Denise Rector

Congregations as Trinitarian Communities: Accepting, Welcoming, and Supporting People with Chronic Mental Illness

Holt-Woehl seeks to discover common characteristics of congregations that are accepting, welcoming, and supporting of people with mental illness. The work includes a literature review on congregations and mental illness as well as a study of six congregations. The author discovered a common view, in each congregation, that every person is a child of God […]

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The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church’s Response

In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine their own responses to the cry of Tamar in our time. She describes specific forms of such violence and outlines appropriate pastoral responses.

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