Safe Congregation Handbook: Nurturing Healthy Boundaries in Our Faith Communities, The

The Safe Congregation Handbook: Nurturing Healthy Boundaries in Our Faith Communities. Patricia Hoertdoerfer and Frederic Muir, editors. Unitarian Universalist Association, 2005; $25. This handbook sets out a flexible program for helping congregations and individuals to "increase their understanding, expand their skills, develop their faith, and learn about resources that they can use when addressing and responding to the dehumanizing experience of interpersonal violence." Essays from a wide range of contributors are followed by outlines for twelve thematic workshops of forty-five minutes or two hours, copy-ready handouts, and resources. The Rev. Patricia Hoertdoerfer has just retired as children, family, and intergenerational programs director in the UUA s Lifespan Faith Development Department.The Rev. Dr. Frederic Muir is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis, Maryland.

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