Virginia Curran Hoffman

The Codependent Church

Experts now recognize that one can be codependent on a dysfunctional church family as well as on one's family of origin. In this uncommonly honest book, the author helps readers to recognize their own degree of religious codependence, and to recover their spiritual and emotional health by finding or creating an ongo- ing faith community where they can participate as whole, coresponsible adults- in, out, or alongside the institution of their childhood. At once stinging and healing, The Codependent Church is sure to be widely discussed, debated, and used.

Virginia Curran Hoffman, a mother of four, teaches theology at Loyola University, Chicago, and coordinates the Ministry Center at Lake County. Her first book, Birthing a Living Church, was widely acclaimed for its inclusive vision of ministry and church.