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Join us in gathering and solidifying better practices by expanding your reading via recommendations from our library . Eat your lunch while you peruse through nonfiction, new books, old favorites, and hopefully something wonderful that you have not heard of yet!
Leaders are readers!
Recommendations below are segmented into topics as follows: Chaplaincy, Grief, Hope, Compassion, Support, Hospital, and Spiritual Care.
Chaplaincy
The Work of the Chaplain by Paget & McCormack
Foundations of Chaplaincy by Alan Baker
The Gift of Presence by Joe E Pennel Jr.
The Gift of Encouragement by Marjorie Thompson
Used to Go to Church by Nick Vleisides
Chaplains of the Bible, by Richard & Patricia Geyer
The Empty Chair, by Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge
The Heart of a Chaplain, by Dr Jim Browning & Dr. Jim Spivey
Chaplaincy in Law Enforcement, by David W DeRevere
Death Notification, by R. Moroni Leash
Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals, by Brian Croft & Phil Newton
Grief
Through a Season of Grief by Dunn & Leonard
A Grace Disguised by Jerry L. Sittser
Don’t Sing Songs to a Heavy Heart by Kenneth Haugk
Walking with God Through Pain & Suffering, by Timothy Keller
Helping People Through Grief, by Delores Kuenning
Comfort the Grieving, by Paul Tautges
Hope
When Your World Shatters by Ron Prosise
God Will Use This for Good by Max Lucado
Trusting God, by Jerry Bridges
Hope in the Midst of Loss, by Beth Weikel
Compassion
Suffering and the Heart of God, by Dian Langberg
Treatment of Complicated Mourning, by Therese A. Rando
Support
Trauma in the Lives of Children, by Kendall Johnson
Crisis and Trauma Counseling, by Dr. H. Norman Wright
Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement, by Kevin M. Gilmartin
Be Still America: I am God, by Amy Bartlett
The Resilient Warrior: Before, During and After War, by Glenn R. Schiraldi, LTC (Ret)
Hospital
Visit the Sick by Brian Croft
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy by Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
Spiritual Care
Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care by Rabbi Stephen Roberts
Disaster Spiritual Care by Rabbi Stephen Roberts
Stress
In the Eye of the Storm by Max Lucado