grief

Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s son Hersh was held captive in Gaza for 332 days before Hamas killed him. Her memoir of grief is also about the faith that has helped her endure it.

The most religious people are also statistically the most likely to place their faith in artificial life support. Why?

In her new memoir, Miriam Toews explores connections between suicide, silence, and writing.

French rabbi Delphine Horvilleur reflects on 11 funerals to paint a vibrant picture of Jewish life.

Barbara Crooker’s new poetry collection is a journey through loss that reveals the world’s beauty.

Stephanie Saldaña reminds us that refugees carry a whole world inside them.

Lucia Hulsether explores how the global economic system has absorbed the very movements that seek to resist it.

At the interment, the holy words I needed to hear weren’t from the Bible.

In either case, Elizabeth McCracken’s account of losing a mother is wrenching and tender. 

In Jon Fosse’s Septology, a tragic vision of faith shines with a luminous darkness.

Musician Nick Cave talks to journalist Seán O’Hagan about his son’s death and the pull of love.

Going through the motions together can move us toward healing.

Hosea testifies to an earth that laments with its people.

Twenty of us gathered to talk about having a job that requires us to weep with those who weep.

Tabitha’s community embraces her in her season after loss.

If anything had an honest answer, it would be the canyon’s cool indifference and heartbreaking beauty.

Karla F. C. Holloway offers one from Sanskrit: vilomah.

Saint Agnostica is a chronicle of grief, love, and mystery.

In between, I was ordained a priest.

Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty.