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Mourning

Hashtags Won't Heal Us

Learning to lament in the 21st century.

When Suicide Strikes in the Body of Christ

Neither life nor death, not even suicide, can separate us from the love of God.

Like Valerie Harper, We're All Terminal

The search for a truer expression of Christian grief.

The Media and the Massacre

True compassion requires turning off the news.

A MASH Unit for Grief: A Support Center Reaches the 'Incoming Wounded' of Long Beach

Nurse Susan Beeney estimates that each year, 40,000 of her neighbors are facing profound loss. What her nonprofit is doing to heal their wounds.

What Good Grief Looks Like When a Daughter Dies

Walking the way of grace in the midst of my grief.

Owning Redemptive Grief after the Ohio School Shooting

Instead of speculating on why T.J. Lane killed three of his classmates, we are better off asking how to grieve the tragedy rightly.

A Daughter's Grief Observed

Meghan O'Rourke's luminous 'The Long Goodbye' traces the final months as her mother succumbs to cancer.

One Wedding and Six Funerals

What it can mean to participate in the life of God.

In the Shadow of Miscarriage

Elise Erikson Barrett's 'What Was Lost' aims to help women who have suffered miscarriage reconnect with God.

Boundaries in Grief

Why medicine should never trade places with a time to properly mourn.

Grieving a Miscarriage

An excerpt from Shauna Niequist's new book, 'Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way'.

Mourning as Gospel Drama

How to reintroduce Christ to the funeral service.

My Top 5 Books on Loss

Nancy Guthrie, the author of Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow, offers a list of new and classic titles.

In the Valley of the Shadow of Suicide

A mother catches glimmers of hope after losing a son.

An Apologetic for Ink

Why I got a second tattoo after the first one was a complete mess.

Happiness Is Not Hope

How Easter Sunday can become the unhealthy denial of death.

Continuing Harvest

Greg Laurie keeps preaching after son's death.

Please Do, and Please Don't

Suggestions for encouraging widows.

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn  Subscriber access only

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

Bereavement Work  Subscriber access only

Traveling Through Grief advocates specific tasks for getting through loss.

Where Is God When It Hurts?  Subscriber access only

A sermon given on the Virginia Tech campus two weeks after the shootings.

A Gray Haze over Everything  Subscriber access only

Campus life after the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

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