Death

Article Review: Speaking of Dying
- By Eric Van Meter
- Posted on January 7th, 2013
In a Protestant church that has outsourced its role in the dying process to the secular medical world, authors Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith seek to reclaim…
Article Helping Your Child Cope with Grief
- By Beth Sheller and Gretchen B. Watts
- Posted on December 16th, 2012
Children react in dramatic and intensely painful ways to the death of a loved one, yet they may show their grief only intermittently. One reason for this is that children do not…
Article How to Help Children After a Crisis
- By Delia Halverson
- Posted on December 14th, 2012
In times of crisis, more than anything else, children need our love. They need to know they are loved, not with a showering of gifts but in a physical way. Hug them. Hold them…
Article Speaking of Dying
- By Fred B. Craddock
- Posted on October 3rd, 2012
Why can we not talk honestly and openly about dying, in our churches and in the surrounding world? The preeminence of medical science and advanced technology, which have led to…
Article The Darkest Valley of Cancer
- By Paul S. Wilcox
- Posted on April 26th, 2012
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me. — Psalm 23:4a Having been a pastor since 1969, I have walked with many families through…
Article Practice Dying
- By Jane Marie Thibault and Richard L. Morgan
- Posted on April 18th, 2012
“For all our days pass away under your wrath; our years come to an end like a sigh. . . . So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart” (Ps. 90:9, 12). …