Healing in the Landscape of Prayer by Avery Brooke

Healing in the Landscape of Prayer by Avery Brooke

An account of the author's training and experience in parish healing ministry, along with history, practical advice, and guidance.

For Christians, the ministry of healing prayer goes back to our deepest roots, to Jesus of Nazareth, who cared for those suffering in body and in spirit. As his followers, we are challenged-and empowered-to do the same. Members of mainline Christian denominations, however, may be skeptical about this ministry, as author Avery Brooke was at first. She tells the surprising story of healing prayer in her own life and that of her church in Connecticut. With clarity and thoroughness, she traces the history of healing prayer, examining it as part of the larger landscape of prayer. This book provides a foundation-and a wealth of practical information-for clergy and lay people to explore healing prayer in their own lives and parishes.

Avery Brooke has taught prayer and meditation and has been a spiritual director for over thirty years. A Holy Cross oblate, she is a former mentor in the Annand Program in Spiritual Growth at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, where she teaches an introductory course on healing and the laying on of hands. Her other works include Plain Prayers in a Complicated World and Finding God in the World.