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Secular Writer Describes Her Grief
In her book The Year of Magical Thinking, author Joan Didion tries to make sense of her world after the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion ...
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'The Ring Finders'
A marital spat, a ring impulsively flung from a finger, a hands-and-knees search for that diamond wedding band out in the tall grass. Such moments of ...
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Can People Die of a ‘Broken Heart’?
BBC news writer Stephen Evans was curious—he'd heard account after account of long-married elderly couples who, sometimes inexplicably, died ...
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Life-sized Dolls Illustrate Grief and Loss
We've all experienced the loss of loved ones. Family, friends, neighbors, valuable members of our community taken by death, or perhaps simply having ...
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Man Saddened that Friends Can't Share His Grief
The British novelist Julian Barnes tried to capture the loneliness of what he calls "grief-work." After thirty years of marriage, his wife Pat ...
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Man Finds His Stolen Car after a 40-Year Search
In 1970, while Bob Russell (not the same Bob Russell who served as minister of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville) was a graduate student at Temple ...
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Father Explains Death to His Son
In the fall of 1991, a car driven by a drunk driver jumped its lane and smashed headfirst into a minivan driven by Jerry Sittser. Sittser and three of ...
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Death Is an Ugly Enemy, but Christ Has Overcome It
There is a school of thought in Christian circles that almost views death so much as a blessing that you are not allowed to cry …. [But in the ...
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Children's Writer Says Children Grow Through Pain and Loss
Author Ken Gire writes: The children's writer Katherine Paterson wrote a book based on her son David's loss of a childhood friend. It was his ...
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Why Athletes Can Lose and Still Thank God
Most athletes believe that god/fate is on their side …. Indeed, when they win a championship, talk of "destiny" fills the postgame locker ...
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