Religion & Society

Care

How People of Faith Can Respond to Our Broken Health System G. Sco Morris

Foreword by Jim Wallis 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 e ect real change. Here’s how.

e dialogue on how to x 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, Sco Morris sheds light on how we can live out a crucial aspect of discipleship by ministering to those caught in the gaps. rough the stories of people too o en ignored or dehumanized, Dr. Morris addresses the nancial and social barriers to health care for low-income and undocumented individuals, the lack of a ordable 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 e ects 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. Sco Morris is the founder and CEO of Church Health, a faith-based health-care center in Memphis, Tennessee, that o ers 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

Bioethics for Nurses

A Christian Moral Vision Alisha N. Mack and Charles C. Camosy Recovering the foundation of faith in a profession enduring the pressures of a rapidly changing health-care system.

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. rough a series of case studies in the second part of the book, Mack and Camosy explore speci c situations with far-reaching implications for nurses working in a range of elds. In the last part, the authors re ect on the future of nursing a er COVID-19, making this an especially timely book for a pivotal moment in the history of the profession.

“ is book, rich with case studies, provides something di erent, needed, and useful. It focuses speci cally on the work of nurses, and it a ends 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 certi ed 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

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 re ection 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.

“Wri en 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.”

— SA H COAKLEY

University of Cambridge

“A monumental achievement in Christian political theology. Bretherton o ers important, o en breakthrough, re ections on the most signi cant issues in this eld. ” — DAVID P. GUSHEE

Mercer University

“Christ and the Common Life will surely set the agenda in the eld for a generation to come, orienting Christian political theology in the direction of justice.”

— VINCENT LLOYD

Villanova University

“ is 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 eology and senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. His other books include Christianity and Contemporary Politics: e Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness, winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for eological Writing.

978-0-8028-8179-3 • Paperback • 480 pages • $35.00 US $46.99 CAN • £28.99 UK • AVAILABLE NOW