Many of these books and articles were helpful to me in researching, designing, and thinking through this website. This list also serves as a bibliography for this site.

Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History: How Love conquered Marriage. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.

Foley, Edward. Reflective Believing: Reimagining Theological Reflection in an Age of Diversity. Unpublished Paper.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 2003.

Graham, Elaine L. Transforming Practice: Pastoral Theology in an Age of Uncertainty. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1996.

Graham, Elaine L. Words Made Flesh: Writings in Pastoral and Practical Theology. London,U.K.: SCM Press, 2009.

Groome, Thomas H. Christian Religious Education: Sharing our Story and Vision. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1980.

Gula, Richard. Ethics in Pastoral Ministry. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1996.

Holland, Joe and Peter Henriot, S.J. Social Analysis: Linking Faith and Justice. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994.

hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Killen, Patricia O’Connell and John de Beer. The Art of Theological Reflection. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1994.

Milgrom, Jo. Handmade Midrash: Workshops in Visual Theology. New York: The Jewish Publication Society, 1992.

Osmer, Richard. Practical Theology: An Introduction. Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008.

Porter, Phil with Cynthia Winton-Henry. Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last. Oakland, CA: Wing IT! Press, 1997.

Seymour, Jack L. Mapping Christian Education: Approaches to Congregational Learning. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Vella, Jane. Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Adult Education, revised edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Whitehead, James D. and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead. Method in Ministry: Theological Reflection and Christian Ministry. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1995.

Wimberly, Anne E. Streaty. Soul Stories: African American Christian Education. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2005.

Woodward, James and Stephen Pattison, eds. The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.