Bill Merrington is an experienced Anglican priest and counsellor and in this book he provides signposts to guide and aid the bereaved on...

In this classic trial of faith, C. S. Lewis probes the fundamental issues of life and death, and summons those who grieve to honest mourning and hope in the midst of loss. C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for the first time after his wife's tragic death. 'A Grief Observed' contains his epigrammatic reflections on that period: "Your bid--for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity--will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high," Lewis writes. "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is the book that inspired the film 'Shadowlands', but it is more wrenching, more revelatory, and more real than the movie. It is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.

Alice looks back over her father's illness, the good times when he was well enough to play computer with her and take her swimming; the bad...

And We Fly Away is the story of the final years and death of the author's wife. Ashford's own emergence from sorrow is marked by the convic...

How then shall we die? Death will come to us all, but most of us live our lives as if death does not exist. People are li...

Some answers for loss and grief Adapted from his vast experience of delivering sermons at funerals, Simon Manchester has written this sh...

'When my life seemed burnt to ashes, the last thing I could cope with was reading lengthy Bible passages, yet the Bible contains many verse...

This gift book combines sensitive quotations, verses and prose with the authors delightful artwork to express a message that God longs to s...

Intended for those times when you need words of assurance and encouragement. .........

'Bridges to Grace' highlights the latest innovations in recovery ministry, as well as resources and suggestions for pastors and church l...