{"product_id":"the-right-road-life-choices-for-clergy-9780800636579","title":"The Right Road: Life Choices for Clergy","description":"Many clergy are in startlingly bad health. Not only do they regularly report depression, stress, and serious family and financial problems, they also exhibit higher than normal incidences of obesity, high cholesterol levels, inactivity, high blood pressure, and heart disease. How effective can professionals in ministry be with such debilities and vulnerabilities? Are clergy too busy helping others to take care of themselves? Gwen Halaas's caring and savvy book addresses clergy health directly: clergy have a spiritual as well as physical need to care for themselves, to live to the fullest, to ensure that they enjoy the life and gifts God gave them. Building her brief, practical book around the wellness wheel, Halaas emphasizes not just healthy eating but a whole array of life-affirming choices for clergy. Halaas provides the tools for clergy to choose growth and well-being over burnout and decline. With this practical and upbeat volume, clergy can begin to put their own lives in perspective and ''keep [themselves] in training for a godly life'' (1 Timothy 4:7).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gwen Wagstrom Halaas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fortress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.62h x 5.60w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780800636579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHalaas, Gwen Wagstrom:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGwen Wagstrom Halaas\u003c\/b\u003e is a family physician who has practiced family medicine for more than 15 years in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her practice included the full range of family medicine, including delivering babies, making house calls, and treating and counseling patients with depression and other stress related disorders. She has been in medical education since 1986, most recently she directed the family practice residency training program at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. This included the teaching of health and wellness, management of disease, medical ethics, and assessing the health of communities. Prior to that she was a medical director for HealthPartners, a health care system in Minneapolis. There she was responsible for health plan policy decisions and was part of a quality management team. As medical director for UCare, a Medicaid managed care organization, she developed a health promotion\/ disease prevention strategy for the members. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a Masters in Business Administration in Medical Group Management from the University of St. Thomas. She is an undergraduate from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwen was named project director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Ministerial Health and Wellness program by the Division for Ministry and the ELCA Board of Pensions. She began her work July 1, 2001. She is also Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and associate director of the Rural Physician Associate Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwen is profiled in Fitzhugh Mullan's book, \u003ci\u003eBig Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care\u003c\/i\u003e published by University of California Press, Berkeley. This is a book of the oral histories of 15 primary care practitioners who have practiced big doctoring described by Dr. Mullan as humanist, comprehensive, efficient and flexible, doctoring that builds on the legacy of the past and the rich tradition of care in medicine and nursing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGwen has written three books. \u003ci\u003eThe Right Road: Life Choices for Clergy\u003c\/i\u003e will be published through Fortress Press in June of 2004. The second, \u003ci\u003eRetiring Well, \u003c\/i\u003e is in process and will be published by the Alban Institute later in 2004. The third, \u003ci\u003eOn Call: Called to Serve, \u003c\/i\u003e is not yet published. Gwen is married to the Rev. Mark W. Halaas, senior pastor at Christ Lutheran Church in Lake Elmo, Minnesota. They have three young adult children, Per, Liv and Erik. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40133728698483,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_81931dd3-698a-473f-9a0d-aef5731706e6.jpg?v=1654176696","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-right-road-life-choices-for-clergy-9780800636579","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}