Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner

Issues in practical theology, pastoral care of women, crisis ministry, pastoral self-care, family systems theory, adoption

Multi-cultural issues in a pastoral care of women, cross-cultural children and their identity formation, the impact of violence in our culture. Rev. Dr. Stevenson-Moessner has trained in a rape crisis center, an addictive disease unit, three domestic violence programs, a community mental health clinic, and a child abuse council. She was a three-year resident at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta and on staff of a counseling center. She is interested in incorporating this training in pastoral courses.

:: Overture to Practical Theology: The Music of Religious Inquiry, (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2016).

:: Portable Roots: Transplanting the Bicultural Child, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).

:: The Elephant in the Church: What You Don’t See Can Kill Your Ministry, co-authors Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Dr.Theol., and Mary Lynn Dell, M.D., (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013).

:: Women Out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multi-Cultural World, Eds. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner and Teresa Snorton, (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009.)
AAPC Oustanding Writer Award, awarded April 17, 2010, in Indianapolis.

:: A Primer in Pastoral Care (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005).

Ordained Presbyterian minister in the PCUSA; Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors; former chair for the Society for Pastoral Theology; member of the International Academy of Practical Theology; Henry Luce III Fellow (2000-2001)