Product Description: A timely resource for the many institutions in the Catholic Church facing diminishment or seeking rebirth and renewal.Arbuckle develops a cultural-anthropological model of change based on the assumption that individual and collective grief, if not expressed in mourning rituals, suffocates creativity...read more

Product Description: How can Catholic leaders effectively train and form members of our institutions in the Gospel values that are the ultimate foundation of Catholic identities? Internationally recognized author, educator, and facilitator Gerald A...read more

Product Description: When Sarah overhears God tell Abraham that she will give birth to a son, she laughs. She laughs to herself at the impossibility of her, in her old age, bearing a child (Gen 18:12). But God’s ways are not Sarah’s ways; God is far more wonderful than Sarah imagines...read more

Product Description: Bullying is not something confined to school children. It is a widespread abuse found in families, workplaces, organizations (including churches), and beyond. Confronting the Demon focuses on the nature and types of contemporary bullying and what the Christian Scriptures advise to prevent it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Violence and its effects are constantly in the news, but the roots of that violence often go unexplained. Violence, Society, and the Church examines the cultural roots of violence and the processes in cultures that foster or allow violence to occur...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Christians are much the richer for this accomplishment of a long-cherished dream by an experienced missioner-social anthropologist. Gerald Arbuckle has provided a book for the contemporary pastoral care team that mediates basic insights on ministry via the social sciences...read more

Product Description: Never before have healthcare institutions faced a more chaotic and threatening environment. Rising costs, aging populations, and a lack of medical insurance have forced healthcare in the Western world to undergo a tumultuous change...read more

Product Description: Book by Arbuckle, Gerald

Product Description: Gerald A. Arbuckle creates a framework for radical thinking about the critical issue of formation of religious for mission today and shows that all formation for ministry must flow from union with the mission of Christ.

Product Description: This text examines why the official Church leadership is in such confusion, why there are so many efforts to restore the Church to the pre-Vatican II model, and why dissent is so vigorously discouraged. The author helps readers to clarify the purpose and styles of leadership/government required in contemporary Gospel communities using religious congragations as examples of Gospel-oriented communities in an in-depth case study...read more

Product Description: Arbuckle, Gerald A.

Product Description: Book by Arbuckle, Gerald A.

Product Description: Stresses the fact that refounding persons are essential for the revitalization of religious life.

Product Description: Book by Gerald A. Arbuckle