Souls in the Hands of a Tender God - Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets
Souls in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets
Authors: Craig Rennebohm, David Paul
Product Code: 0043
ISBN: 978-080700043-4
Pages: 224
Binding Information: Paperback
Size: 6" X 9" Inches
Illustrated: No
Copyright Date Ed: 06/01/2009
Trade Code: 00P
Price: $18.00 In stock.
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As profiled in USA Today, a pastor's ministry working with the homeless and mentally ill and a discussion of our need for healing communities
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Since 1987, Craig Rennebohm has ministered to people who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. In Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, he tells the evocative stories of those who desperately need psychiatric, psychological, and spiritual support, like Mary, who surrounds herself with bulging trash bags, and Jerry, barred from every shelter and meal program in Seattle. With gentleness and grace, solid knowledge and wisdom, Rennebohm reaches out to each of them, and their stories become parables that explore mental illness and the spiritual heart of care and recovery.
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Review SZ Magazine - March 1, 2009
“…inspiring and instructive stories of healing for the homeless that would be an excellent introduction for a church or agency called to minister to the homeless.”
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"As well as a guide to how others can help be healing presences to the mentally ill, this hopeful book is a meditation on faith in a broken world."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A refreshing look at compassion and caring for Seattle's outcasts . . . touching and not overly preachy."
—Louisa Gaylord, Crosscut
"Recommend[ed] to professionals . . . to those who have struggled with mental/emotional problems, and to those who have mentally disturbed family members or friends."
—Dean Watt, The Center for Progressive Christianity
"For the past 20 years, the Rev. Craig Rennebohm has spent at least three days a week walking the streets of [Seattle]. His mission? Helping the chronically homeless people everyone else bustles past. He shepherds people with mental illnesses to doctor appointments. He warms folks up with coffee at Starbucks. And, always, this United Church of Christ minister tries to get some of the 2,000-plus people 'sleeping rough' on any given night into housing. It's slow going."
—Laura Vanderkam, USA Today
"Souls delivers a multilayered and nuanced discussion of homelessness and mental illness. And, when combined with a theological perspective that emphasizes God's love, Rennebohm's hard-fought-and-won insights into engaging the homeless and creating better systems of care offer refreshing contact points for psychology and religion."
—James H. Zahniser, Contemporary Psychology
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