HEALTHY COMMUNICATION | HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

Creating Healthier Ways of Relating to One Another

Welcome to my blog!

You will find blog posts published twice a month:

• Best Practices posts around three hundred words will appear at the first of each month.
• Bonus Posts with a little more depth will appear at the middle of the month and be around five hundred words.

These posts draw on practical wisdom from researching and writing five books you’ll find featured elsewhere on the website:

• What Makes Our Relationships Meaningful, Satisfying, or Fulfilling? Answers from Social Scientists and the Wisdom of Ordinary People (Wipf & Stock, 2025).
• Signs of Hope and Health in Mainline Churches: Creating Hopeful and Healthy Congregations (Wipf & Stock, 2025)
• Better Ways to Better Relationships in the Church: Practicing Humility, Experiencing Empathy, Feeling Compassion, Showing Kindness, Expressing Appreciation, and Doing Justice (Wipf & Stock, 2021)
• Communication in the Church: A Handbook for Healthier Relationships (Rowman & Littlefield Alban Publication, 2016)
• Small Groups in the Church: A Handbook for Creating Community (Alban Institute, 1995)

Find Best Practices posts at this link: https://bestpracticeswithtomkirkpatrick.blogspot.com

And find Bonus Posts at this link: https://bonuspostswithtomkirkpatrick.blogspot.com

I hope you’ll find this treasury of practical wisdom worthwhile in your personal and professional life, and useful in your service to our global community!

Tom