National Service

Items marked with * may be ordered from Interfaith CarePartners®

701 North Post Oak Road, Suite 330, Houston, Texas 77024-3818

  • *Earl E. Shelp and Ronald H. Sunderland, Sustaining Presence: A model of Caring by People of Faith. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000 (price: $15.00).

  • *Ronald H. Sunderland, Getting Through Grief: Grief Ministry in the Congregation. Nashville: Abingdon 1993 (price: $15.00).

  • *Earl E. Shelp and Ronald H. Sunderland, AIDS and the Church: The Second Decade. Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992 (price: $10.00).

  • *Ronald H. Sunderland and Earl E. Shelp, Handle With Care: A Handbook for Care Teams Serving People with AIDS,  Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990 (price: $10.00).

  • Earl E. Shelp, Ronald H. Sunderland, and Peter Mansell, AIDS: Personal Stories in Pastoral Perspective. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1986.

  • Herbert Anderson, Lawrence E. Holst, and Ronald H. Sunderland, eds., Ministry to Outpatients, Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress Press, 1991.

  • The Theology and Medicine Series, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in Dortrecht, The Netherlands, was edited by Earl E. Shelp (1992-1997).  This limited series of edited volumes addressed the contribution of theological studies to medicine. Volumes in the series are as follows: Contingent Future Persons: On the Ethics of Deciding Who Will Live, or Not, in the Future; Secular Bioethics in Theological Perspective; Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine; Duties to Others; Christian Theology and Medical Ethics; The Illusion of Trust: Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age; Religious Methods and Resources in Bioethics; Theological Analyses of the Clinical

  • The Pilgrim Press Pastoral Series: The Pastor as Prophet, The Pastor as Priest, The Pastor as Servant, The Pastor as Theologian, The Pastor as Teacher, and The Pastor as Counselor, co-edited by Dr. Shelp and Dr. Sunderland, were published between 1985 and 1991.

  • Earl E. Shelp, Ronald H. Sunderland, eds.,  A Biblical Basis for Ministry.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1981.
Dr. Shelp and Dr. Sunderland are authors of over 70 articles in scholarly and popular publications.