Overview

Leanna K. Fuller notes that conflict is a pervasive feature of contemporary churches. Faith communities today face increasingly complex and difficult dynamics such as same-sex marriage, immigration, church-state relationships, and many more--both internally and in the surrounding culture. And congregants and pastoral leaders need resources to help them navigate the aftermath of such conflicts. Embodied Reconciliation responds by offering a set of practices to help congregations explore reconciliation as a form of communal pastoral care. Fuller presents an understanding of reconciliation that includes elements of forgiveness and accountability, emphasizes process rather than outcome, recognizes human dignity and differences, and acknowledges that God is the primary agent of transformation. She describes practices--truth-telling, grieving and lamenting, confessing and repenting, and blessing and releasing--that congregations can implement any time they experience conflict or tension. These practices, in turn, help congregations imagine how their faith communities might move toward embodying reconciliation. This book is ideal for leaders of faith communities, whether clergy or lay, who have varying levels of pastoral care experience--or no experience at all. Embodied Reconciliation can be used effectively in seminary classrooms as well as church leadership trainings.

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Leanna K. Fuller serves as the Joan Marshall Associate Professor of Pastoral Care at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She holds a PhD in religion, psychology, and culture from Vanderbilt University. Her primary research interest is conflict in faith communities. Fuller is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and has professional experience in both chaplaincy and parish ministry.

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