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Kathy Armistead, PhD is a writer and consultant. Formerly she was the Publisher at the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church. Kathy is the author, ghostwriter, or development editor of more than 300 books. She helps writers craft marketable book ideas and communicate with clarity and purpose.

Communicating  through publishing can be a powerful tool for achieving concrete change for a just, equitable society. Good books are the fruit of an investment of intellectual capital and are meant to provide a vigorous and lively platform for those who want to enact their convictions. But in the arena of ideas, care must be taken to offer access to those whose voices have been underrepresented, so that all might prosper.

To inquire about engaging Kathy  for you, your organization, conference, school, or group, contact her at  kathy_armistead@yahoo.com

BOOKS

Essentials for the Journey: Embracing and Living the 10 Commandments of Character—Proven Principles for a Psychologically Healthy and Spiritually Rich Life by George K Simon, PhD with M Kathryn Armistead, PhD, Independently Published, 2021.

Nevertheless She Leads: Postcolonial Woman’s Leadership for the ChurchHiRho Y. Park and M. Kathryn Armistead, General Editors, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2020.

Unity of the Church and Human Sexuality: Toward a Faithful United Methodist Witness: Study Guide, M. Kathryn Armistead, General Editor, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2017.

The Prophetic Voice and Making Peace, General Editors: M. Kathryn Armistead and Matthew W. Charlton, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2016.

How Did We End Up Here? Surviving and Thriving in a Character-Disordered World, by George K. Simon, Ph.D. with M. Kathryn Armistead, Create Space, forthcoming 2016.

Conversations: Leading United Methodist-related Schools, Colleges, and Universities, General Editors: M. Kathryn Armistead and Melanie Overton, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2015.

Wesleyan Theology and Social Science: The Dance of Practical Divinity and Discovery, Edited by M. Kathryn Armistead, Brad Strawn, and Ron Wright, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.

How God Can Take Our Little and Make It Much, Leader’s Guide, Abingdon Press, 2010

This We Believe: The Core of Wesleyan Faith and Practice, Leader’s Guide, Abingdon Press, 2010

God-Images in the Healing Process, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1995

Chapters in Books

“God Calls Us Leaders: A Practical Theology of Leadership,” in Nevertheless She Leads: Postcolonial Woman’s Leadership for the ChurchHiRho Y. Park and M. Kathryn Armistead, General Editors, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2020

“A Phenomenological Approach to Values and Valuing: A Research Strategy,” in Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism: Essays in Honor of Bruce Chilton, Edited by Alan Avery-Peck, Craig Evans, and Jacob Neusner, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2016.

“Empathy: A Bridge between Wesleyan Theology and Self Psychology,” in Wesleyan Theology and Social Science: The Dance of Practical Divinity and Discovery, Edited by M. Kathryn Armistead, Brad Strawn, and Ron Wright, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.

ARTICLES

“Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere,” in Interpreter, forthcoming March/April, 2016.

“GBHEM: Supporting Journeys to Professional Ministry,” in Interpreter, Nov./Dec., 2015, pp. 26-29.

“A Critical Examination of Freud’s Scientific Premise that Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny in Totem and Taboo,Didache, Vol. 9, Number 2, Jan. 2010. http://didache.nts.edu/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=793&Itemid=7

“Empathy and Healing in a Methodist Ecclesial Context,” Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, Vol. 9, Number 2, 2006, pp. 57-73. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J515v09n02_05?journalCode=wspi20

“Care,” in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 1, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, General Editor, Abingdon Press, Nashville, 2006. Pp. 568-569.

“The Suffering Servant Song: Isaiah 52:13-53:12,” The Abingdon Preaching Annual, 2002 Edition, Charles Bugg, Editor, Abingdon Press, 2001, pp. 130-132.

“Genetic Counseling,” in Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Rodney Hunter, General Editor, Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1990, p. 458.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONSULTATIONS

International

A Practical Theology of  Church Publishing. Paper presented to the Practical Theology section of the Thirteenth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies,, Pembroke College, Oxford, England, 2018

Feelings of Deadness: A Pathology for Our Time. Paper presented to the Science, Technology, and Public Policy section of the Twelfth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, Oxford, England, 2007.

Practical Theology and Publishing. Paper presented to the Practical Theology section of the Eleventh Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, Oxford, England, 2002.

National

Phenomenology of Values: A Wesleyan Perspective. Presented at Wesleyan Theological Society, 2012

A Critical Examination of Freud’s Scientific Premise that Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny in Totem and Taboo, Presented to the Society for Psychology and Wesleyan Theology, 2009

Publisher’s Workshop, Society for Pastoral Theology, 2001-2008

What is Empathy? How Does It Heal? Presented to the Society for Psychology and Wesleyan Theology, 2005