Author Description

In The Undivided Soul: Helping Congregations Connect Body and Spirit, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan offers a worship, study, and sermon planning resource containing meditations, responsive readings, poems, and prayers for use by pastors, educators, and small-group leaders. This volume is designed as a teaching/learning guide. Each chapter explores various aspects of faith, health, and spirituality. The book can be used as a worship resource for Sunday worship, retreats, or other gatherings; it can be used as a devotional resource for small groups; it can be a study guide for group study or retreats. This resource is designed to help persons and groups explore the relationship between the faith journey, physical bodies, and spiritual discipline. Key Features: * Explores various aspects of faith, health, and spirituality as well as how the three are connected * Provides ready-made worship and study materials * Includes ideas for one-day seminars * Ideal for both pastors and small-group leaders Key Benefits: * Helps readers understand the relationship between faith journey, physical body, and spiritual discipline * Provides pastors, worship leaders, Bible study leaders, and small-group leaders with ready-to-use resources (such as responsive readings, meditations, prayers, and vows of commitment) * Provides group leaders with resources for seminars, short-term study, or occasional devotion or discussion topics * Provides retreat leaders with abundant resources for spirituality retreats