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Spiritual Communities Suicide Prevention: Additional Readings

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  • Albers, Robert H. and William H. Meller, eds. Ministry with Person with Mental Illness and their Families (Minneapolis, MI: Fortress Press, 2012).

  • Black, Kathy. A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability (Nashville, TN Abingdon Press, 1996)

  • Crafton, Barbara C. Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet (San Francisco: Jossey- Bass, 2009).

  • Coleman, Monica A. Not Alone: Reflections on Faith and Depression (Culver City, CA: Inner Prizes, 2012)

  • Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith. (Minneapolis, MI: Fortress Press, 2016)

  • Finnegan-Hosey, David. Christ on the Psych Ward (New York: Church Publishing, 2018).

  • Gaventa, William. Disability and Spirituality: Recovering Wholeness (Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability). (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018)

  • Hulme, William. Wrestling with Depression (Minneapolis: Augsburg Books, 1995).

  • Jones, Serene. Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2019)

  • Keefe, Rachael A., The Lifesaving Church: Faith Communities and Suicide Prevention (Atlanta: Chalice Press, 2018).

  • Kehoe, Nancy. Wrestling with our Inner Angels: Faith, Mental Illness and the Journey to Wholeness (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009).

  • Koenig, Harold G. Faith and Mental Health: Religious Resources for Healing (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2005)

  • Larchet, Jean-Claude. Faith and Mental Health: Religious Resources for Healing (Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2005).

  • Lund, Marcia. When Your Family is Living with Mental Illness (Difficult Times) (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002).

  • Lund, Sarah Griffith. Blessed are the Crazy: Breaking Silence About Mental Illness, Family, and Church (St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2014)

  • Blessed Union: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness and Marriage (Atlanta, GA: Chalice Press, 2021).

  • Mayo, Kelly Raab. Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health (Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009).

  • McCreigh, Kathryn. Darkness is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2006).

  • Proeschold-Bell, Rae Jean and Byassee, Jason. Faithful and Fractured: Responding to the Clergy Health Crisis. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2018).

  • Rambo, Shelly. Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010)

  • Rambo, Shelly. Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018)

  • Reynolds, Thomas E. Vulnerable Communion: A Theology Of Disability And Hospitality (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2008)

  • Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Many Forms of Madness: A Family’s Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System (Minneapolis, MI: Fortress Press, 2010).

  • Simpson, Amy. Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2013).

  • Stone, Howard. Depression and Hope: New Insights for Pastoral Counseling (Minneapolis, MI: Fortress Press, 1998).

  • Swinton, John. Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2020)

  • Resurrecting the Person: Friendship and the Care of People with Mental Health Problems (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2000).

  • Vacek, Heather H. Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2015)

  • Vanier, Jean and John Swinton. Mental Health: The Inclusive Church Resource (London: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd., 2014).

 
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