How People of Faith Can Respond to Our Broken Health System G. Scott Morris
A Christian Moral Vision Alisha N. Mack and Charles C. Camosy
Foreword by Jim Wallis
Recovering the foundation of faith in a profession enduring the pressures of a rapidly changing health-care system.
Our health-care system doesn’t work for the most vulnerable. It’s time for people of faith to respond with concrete action to demonstrate God’s love and effect real change. Here’s how. The dialogue on how to fix US health care is mired in partisan policy debates. Rather than idly waiting for the gridlock to resolve, people of faith can live into their call to care for the underserved right now. Drawing from his experience as a medical doctor, a pastor, and the founder and CEO of the nation’s largest charitably funded faith-based health-care center, Scott Morris sheds light on how we can live out a crucial aspect of discipleship by ministering to those caught in the gaps. Through the stories of people too often ignored or dehumanized, Dr. Morris addresses the financial and social barriers to health care for low-income and undocumented individuals, the lack of affordable medications, the challenges of chronic disease and behavioral health issues, and the promising outcomes of faith-based care that treats the whole person. As we continue to reckon with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the inequities in our health systems it has highlighted, Dr. Morris’s book calls readers to awareness, action, and advocacy in their local communities on behalf of those who have no one else to turn to for quality care. G. Scott Morris is the founder and CEO of Church Health, a faith-based health-care center in Memphis, Tennessee, that offers care for those underserved by the US health system. Dr. Morris holds an MDiv from Yale University and an MD from Emory University. His other books include If Your Heart Is Like My Heart: A Pilgrimage of Faith and Health (coauthored with Shane Stanford) and God, Health, and Happiness: Discover Wholeness in Body and Spirit. 978-0-8028-8237-0 • Paperback • 184 pages • $18.99 US $25.99 CAN • £14.99 UK AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2022
With the combined wisdom of Alisha Mack, a professor of nursing with many years of clinical experience, and Charles Camosy, an awardwinning bioethicist and theologian, Bioethics for Nurses advances a vision for a holistic Christian notion of nursing and health care with practical applications for everyday relevance on the job. Topics explored include the treatment of the whole person, relational care, using health-care resources justly to meet the needs of underserved people, and conscience protection. Through a series of case studies in the second part of the book, Mack and Camosy explore specific situations with far-reaching implications for nurses working in a range of fields. In the last part, the authors reflect on the future of nursing after COVID-19, making this an especially timely book for a pivotal moment in the history of the profession. “This book, rich with case studies, provides something different, needed, and useful. It focuses specifically on the work of nurses, and it attends to ways Christian beliefs might shape their work. We can hope that it will be used in many schools of nursing.” — GILBERT MEILAENDER
author of Bioethics: A Primer for Christians
Alisha N. Mack, DNP, RN, FNP-C, is assistant professor of nursing at Indiana Wesleyan University and a doctorally prepared family nurse practitioner. She is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and is certified as a health coach through the National Society of Health Coaches. Charles C. Camosy, PhD, is associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University. In addition to his articles that have appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times to the American Journal of Bioethics, he is the author of several books, including Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine Is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality. 978-0-8028-7892-2 • Paperback • 252 pages • $21.99 US $29.99 CAN • £17.99 UK • AVAILABLE JUNE 2022
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Christ and the Common Life Political Theology and the Case for Democracy Luke Bretherton Christ and the Common Life is an introduction to historical and contemporary theological reflection on politics that opens up a compelling vision for a Christian commitment to democracy. In dialogue with Scripture and various traditions, Luke Bretherton addresses fundamental political questions about poverty and injustice, forming a common life with strangers, and handling power constructively.
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“Written with incisive clarity and remarkable accessibility, this book is not only a scholarly achievement of great note but also a useful tool for teaching and discussion in universities, seminaries, and churches.” — SARAH COAKLEY
University of Cambridge
“A monumental achievement in Christian political theology. Bretherton offers important, often breakthrough, reflections on the most significant issues in this field. ” — DAVID P. GUSHEE
Mercer University
“Christ and the Common Life will surely set the agenda in the field for a generation to come, orienting Christian political theology in the direction of justice.”
— VINCENT LLOYD
Villanova University
“This erudite synthesis and expansion of Bretherton’s work over the last two decades brims with insights into essential and interrelated topics, such as secularity, toleration, economy, sovereignty, and populism.” — AMOS YONG
Fuller Theological Seminary
Luke Bretherton is the Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Theology and senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. His other books include Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness, winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing. 978-0-8028-8179-3 • Paperback • 480 pages • $35.00 US $46.99 CAN • £28.99 UK • AVAILABLE NOW
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