Current projects and work of Beth Scibienski, pastor, entrepreneur, writer

Beth is a published author and contributing author of...

Who Is God when We Hurt?
a pastor, caregiver wrestles with loss, grief, faith & doubt

From the back cover ~

"I’m sorry. It reads like Multiple Sclerosis. There is treatment. Go see the neurologist. He will know what to do now.”

With those words, Beth Scibienski’s life changes. Her husband of … years, Pete, had been diagnosed with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. In Who is God When We Hurt, Beth, a newly-ordained pastor at the time of her husband’s diagnosis, tells stories of loss and grief, faith and doubt, from our own life and from life as the pastor of a dynamic, loving community of faith.

So often people question, “Where is God when we hurt?” Beth’s experience has shown her that God was readily present in the people who surrounded her, and her parishioners, when they were hurting. Rather than “where is God,” a better question might be, “who is God when we hurt?”

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Sustaining Grace: Innovative Ecosystems for New Faith Communities

Sustaining Grace explores the dynamic between new faith communities and denominational systems through the lens of stewardship and sustainability. As a collection, these essays suggest that to facilitate ecologies for innovation in our current era, established congregations and new faith communities must image the sustaining grace of God to one another in creative ways. Thus, problems of sustainability are not for church planters to solve alone, but rather are related to the theologies of stewardship and the ecclesial system to which they belong. Issues of vision are not for denominational systems to theorize alone, but are given shape on their historic foundations in the creative and prophetic structures practiced in new faith communities.

The book is available online, including through Hearts & Minds Books.