The Undivided Soul: Helping Congregations Connect Body and Spirit. (Book)
Cheryl A Kirk-Duggan, Author.  Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2001.

This resource is designed to help individuals and groups explore the relationship between the faith journey, the physical body, and spiritual discipline, with the goal of becoming more connected to the sacred in their lives.

Cheryl Kirk-Duggan argues that a sense of personal wholeness is key to connecting more fully with ourselves, each other, and the Divine. "To embody God," she writes, "is to live in harmony with oneself, to live a balanced life with a discerning spirit in the context of one's social, religious, physical, and spiritual environments."

This book is designed to help pastors, lay leaders, and congregations explore the interconnections of health, faith, and spirituality through their worship together. The author provides a number of tools for this exploration, including in each chapter various meditations, reflective commentaries, responsive readings, poems, and prayers that can be used as resources for Sunday worship, as topics for sermons, as preparation for Bible study meetings, or during worship services or in small groups.

The book can also be used as a worship resource or study guide for retreats or other gatherings, or as a devotional resource for small groups.

Those interested in assisting individuals in their congregations to be healthier and more well-balanced would benefit from this work.

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