Souls in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets

Authors: Rennebohm, Craig
Publisher: Beacon Press
BISAC/Subject: REL012110, BIO018000, REL050000
ISBN: 9780807097427, Related ISBNs: 0807000426, 0807000434, 080709742X, 9780807000427, 9780807000434
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 224,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A compassionate chronicle of a Protestant pastor who for decades has ministered to Seattle’s homeless and most vulnerable communities

Craig Rennebohm shares the evocative stories of those he has encountered on the street who desperately need psychiatric, psychological, and spiritual support. We meet people who, abandoned and marginalized by their community, need care and treatment to find their way back to a life of stability and meaning. Their stories become parables that explore mental illness and the spiritual heart of care and recovery, helping us understand what it means to be human, on a pilgrimage together toward wholeness.
 
Rennebohm’s powerful experiences, drawn from his own life and the lives of those he has aided in their struggles, show us a God of kindness and compassion. He offers a clear understanding of Spirit, faith, soul, and religion that will prove invaluable to individual conversations and to dialogue among congregations about how we can best welcome and include “the least among us”—our most fragile and troubled neighbors.
 
With gentleness and grace, solid knowledge and wisdom, Rennebohm helps those who are seeking a path of healing and the way of companionship so they may build healing communities of caring that in which all may have a home, safely rest, and be well.
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