In the Summer 2025 edition of Anglican Theological Review, Volume 107, Issue 3, Dr. Stephanie Ramirez, Associate Professor of Counselor Education at Southwest, played a central editorial role in the special issue titled “Practicing Theology: Congregations and Clergy on the Frontlines of the Mental Health Crisis.”
Ramirez served as the guest editor for this special issue. As guest editor, she helped shape the thematic focus, solicited contributions, and guided the framing of articles around how congregations and clergy are responding to the ongoing mental health crisis.
The issue explores how theology and faith communities are engaging with mental health—especially as the crisis has deepened in the pandemic’s aftermath. Ramirez’s leadership in this area is important to not just theological reflection but to theology that interacts with pressing social and pastoral realities. The topics include pastoral care, congregational responses, theological education, and intersections of faith, identity, culture, and mental health.
By bringing together scholars and practitioners under this theme, Ramirez helped extend the conversation beyond academic theology into lived experience and ministry contexts.
Learn more about this issue here.
