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When Steeples Cry: Church leadership in times of change. The Pilgrim Press (Cleveland, 2005). 

Other Publications

• PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS
  Books and Book Chapters

  • A play-full life: Slowing down and seeking peace (The Pilgrim Press: Cleveland, 2011).
  • Becoming a pastor: Forming self and soul for ministry (The Pilgrim Press: Cleveland, 2007).
  • When steeples cry: Leading congregations through loss and change (The Pilgrim Press: Cleveland, 2005).
    
  • “Playing.” In The Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology. Edited by Bonnie Miller-McLemore(Blackwell Wiley Press: Cambridge, MA, Forthcoming 2011).
  • “Don’t and can’t get up: Serious depression.” In The Church Leader's Counseling Resource Book: A Guide to Mental Health and Social Problems. Edited by Cynthia Franklin & Rowena Fong (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2011).
  • “Self-care and community.” In Welcome to Field Education! Edited by Matthew Floding (Alban Press: Washington, 2010).

  Articles and reviews

  • “Women in ministry and the psychodynamics of sadness”, In Pastoral Psychology, Volume 59, Nos. 9 (October 2010).
  • “Cura vitae: Restoring lives and the search to be real”, In Sacred Spaces, e-Journal of the American Association of Pastoral Counseling, Volume 1, Issue 1 (August 2010).
  • “Calvinism,” “Donald Woods Winnicott,” “Masochism,” and “Protestantism.” In Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Edited byDavid A. Leeming, Kathryn Madden and Stanton Marlan (Springer: New York, 2010).
  • “Seeing things differently and not being looked at”, In Pastoral Psychology, Volume 58,
    Nos. 5-6 (December 2009).
  • Review of Open-hearted ministry: Play as key to pastoral leadership by Michael Koppel. In Journal of Pastoral Theology, Volume 19, No. 1 (Summer 2009).
  • “Pastoral implications” for Proper 18–Proper 21: Matt. 18:15-50, Matt. 18:21-35, Matt 20:1-16, Matt. 21:23-32. In Lectionary Homiletics, Volume XIX, No. 5 (August–September 2008).
  • Review of Transforming spirituality: Integrating theology and psychology by F. LeRon Shults and Steven J. Sandage. In Interpretation (January 2008).
  • Review of Fragile connections: Memoirs of mental illness for pastoral care professionals by Donald Capps. In The Journal of Pastoral Theology,Volume 16, No. 2 (Fall 2006).
  • “Reclaiming caritas in a hyper-masculine world.”A response to Dr. Rivera-Pagán’s“Doing Pastoral Theology in a Post-Colonial Context: Some Reflections from the Caribbean.” In The Journal of Pastoral Theology, Volume 17, No. 2 (Fall 2007).
  • Review of Lament: Reclaiming practices in pulpit, pew, and public square bySally A. Brown and Patrick D. Miller, Editors. In Interpretation (June 2006).
  • “Remembering the dismembered: Teaching for transformation and restoration,” In The Journal of Pastoral Theology, Volume 16, No. 1 (Spring 2006).
  •  “Being a chaplain: Call, conversation, and charity,” In The Reformed Review, Volume 57, No. 3 (Spring, 2004).
  • “The church is a house in mourning,” In The Reformed Review, Volume 56, No. 1 (Autumn, 2002).
  • "Paranoia." In Dictionary of Pastoral Studies. Edited by Wesley Carr (SPCK Press: London, 2002).
  • “The search to be real. Why psychotherapists become psychotherapists,” In Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 40, No. 3 (Fall 2001).
  • “The rod of discipline: Masochism, sadism, and the Judeo-Christian religion,” In Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 39, No. 4 (Winter 2000).
  • "Developing a capacity for concern: The Million Man March as transitional object," In Koinonia, Volume 12, No. 1 (2000).
  • "Towards a postmodern methodology for pastoral counseling," In Koinonia,Volume XI.1 (1999).
  • Translated (Dutch into English) the section on practical theology in Abraham Kuyper's Encyclopaedie der Godgeleerdheid (Kampen: J.H. Kok Publishers, 1909, 2nd printing), Unpublished document. Practical Theology Department, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ (August 1998).
  • "Religious metaphors and symbols in a psychiatric setting," with Daniël Louw. In Nederduits Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif (December 1997).
  • Book note on The image of God: A theology for pastoral care and counseling by Leroy T. Howe, In Theology Today 53:4 (1997).
  • Review of Doing theology in context: South African perspectives by John W. De Gruchy and Charles Villa-Vicencio. In Koinonia, Volume VII.2 (1995).

Lectures and workshops
A primary aspect of my calling is to be involved with the local church and in the life of my denomination, the Reformed Church in America. I believe the effectiveness of my teaching will not be stronger than the relationship I have with the church as the Body of Christ. I regularly lecture and offer workshops on: Teaching for transformation; living creatively, family dynamics; loss and grief; the formation of one's self and soul; on being called; mentoring; and, aspects of pastoral psychotherapy.