Meghan Riordan Jarvis, who specializes in grief and loss, shares her favorite books for different kinds of grief, for readers of all ages Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LCSW is an author, podcast host, ...

This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. “This is enough, O Lord! Take my life…” (1 Kgs 19:4) My plan was not to read three ...

Writing about loss and grief is hard. Writing about the loss of a child is even harder. A San Diego-based writer is looking to make the grieving process easier and provide a conversation starter for ...

Some non-fiction books do not aim to inspire or instruct. They aim to tell the truth. About love that fails, families that fracture, grief that reshapes identity, and healing that is neither linear ...

Dr. Holloway thought it was imperative to create books on death and divorce as a point of reference to start conversations with children. Dr. Linda Holloway is a professor at Alabama State University ...

It is the vocation of professional theologians to apply the faith of the church to ordinary life and contemporary issues. In exceptional cases, this call can be deeply personal when the subject is ...

John Kenney is one of six brothers. In 2019, when his brother Tom, a firefighter who spent a week at Ground Zero in 2001, was dying of cancer, Kenney went to visit him one last time. As they were ...