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Beautiful and Terrible Things
A Christian Struggle with Suffering, Grief, and Hope

By Christian M. M. Brady

Bible scholar Christian Brady, an expert on Old Testament lament, was as prepared as a person could be for the death of a child—which is to say, not nearly well enough. When his eight-year-old son died suddenly from a fast-moving blood infection, Bra...

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Near the Exit
Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper

By Lori Erickson

"This book’s journey to spiritual places near and far is worth taking." — Library Journal, starred review Lori Erickson travels to "grim" locations at home and abroad and explores death through the lenses of other cultures. After her brother died u...

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Whence and Whither
On Lives and Living

By Thomas Lynch

From one of our most gifted writers and thinkers about death and the meaning of living comes a collection of writings about “what comes next.” Thomas Lynch, funeral director, poet, and author of the National Book Award finalist The Undertaking: Life ...

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Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life

By Nancy J. Duff

By exploring the ethics of resisting and accepting death from a Christian perspective, Nancy Duff encourages Christians to talk about death in the context of Christian faith. Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life helps readers use biblical and...

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Glimpsing Resurrection
Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry

By Deanna A. Thompson

In Glimpsing Resurrection, Deanna A. Thompson combines recent trauma research with compelling first-person narrative to provide insight into the traumatic dimensions of living with a serious illness. Her aim is to help those who are ill and those who...

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The Practice of Pastoral Care, Revised and Expanded Edition
A Postmodern Approach

By Carrie Doehring

The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates pre...

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Pilgrimage through Loss
Pathways to Strength and Renewal after the Death of a Child

By Linda Lawrence Hunt

The death of a child immerses parents into a life- long challenge of living with one of life's most heartbreaking losses. Pilgrimage through Loss tells the story of one family's journey, along with interviews from thirty other mothers and fathers wh...

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The Good Funeral
Death, Grief, and the Community of Care

By Thomas G. Long

"Before long I began to understand that showing up, being there, helping in an otherwise helpless situation was made heroic by the same gravity I had sensed when I first stood in that embalming room as a boy—the presence of the dead made the presence...

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Accompany Them with Singing--The Christian Funeral

By Thomas G. Long

Now available in paperback is Thomas Long's best-selling study on the Christian funeral. Long begins by describing how the Christian funeral developed historically, theologically, and liturgically, and then discusses recent cultural trends in funera...

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Good Mourning
Getting through Your Grief

By Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.

In this brief book Allan Hugh Cole explains the process of grief and what loss can do to us, identifies ways of coping, and reminds us of the hope that we can find in mourning. Ultimately, Cole offers a plan of "good mourning"--a way to work through ...

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Caring for Mother
A Daughter's Long Goodbye

By Virginia Stem Owens

In Caring for Mother, Virginia Stem Owens gives a clear and realistic account of caring for an elderly loved one. Along the way, Owens notes the spiritual challenges she encountered, not the least of which included fear of her own suffering and death...

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Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life

By David S. Cunningham

Theologian and writer David Cunningham draws from novels, poems, and plays to give a resource for humans who face suffering, death, and new life. He provides a religious reading of important literary texts, with three studies for each of the three th...

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Psalms of Lament

By Ann Weems

Here beloved poet Ann Weems offers a poignant rendering of her own personal psalms of lament. She draws from the rich heritage of Scripture to give voice to the grief and anguish she has felt. Her words will deeply move anyone who has mourned.

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All Our Losses, All Our Griefs
Resources for Pastoral Care

By Herbert Anderson, Kenneth R. Mitchell

Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including the origins and dynamics of grief, loss throughout life, caring for those who gr...

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