Richard L. Morgan shares his experience and conviction that the process of divorce can be a powerful religious experience.

He offers the church an insightful resource for ministering to the growing number of Christians who are facing the pain, suffering, and guilt of marriage failure.

The church often responds to divorce through outdated theology that condemns rather than nurtures. The response should be one of redemption- redemption that comes through ritual, pastoral care, and a clearer understanding of the divorce process.

Morgan examines the theological themes of confession, guilt, penitence, grace, and forgiveness and relates them to the divorce experience. He enables people to develop a theology of divorce, rooted in the theology of marriage. Someone in the throes of divorce must come to terms with the relational collapse, a sense of personal failure, and feelings of despair and guilt. They need help, support, and understanding from their church community. Morgan shows how the church can learn to respond in a way that is helpful and supportive. He even includes a chapter on divorce counseling. He offers creative strategies, practical help, and other resources that enable the church, its members and ministers to reach out, to understand, to nurture, to minister to its members who are divorcing, divorced, or remarried.