IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON SUFFERING

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Suffering..........John D. Godsey............4
We are called to share God's suffering in a godless world 

Suffering: Aging and Dying................Walter J. Burghardt, S.J..6
We share in Jesus' dying all our lives

A Reflection on Suffering and.............Barbara Nilsen............8
Responsibility
Suffering requires us to be both pastoral and prophetic

Four Helps for Sufferers..................Paul Zahl................10
Suffering cries out for a religion of incarnation and atonement

Nobody Knows but Jesus....................Josiah Young.............12
Bonhoeffer was highly critical of racism in American society

Suffering at Second Hand..................Donald W. Shriver, Jr....14
It takes spiritual courage not to hide from the enormity of mass 
suffering

Suffering and Reconciliation..............Nicholas Frayling........16
There is no reconciliation without sorrow and repentance

A Spiritual Pragmatist and Suffering......Margaret Dorgan, D.C.M...18
Suffering purifies with a fire that can illumine and sanctify

Suffering: The Badge of Discipleship......Douglas John Hall........20
The church must suffer in order to find salvation

A Jewish View of Suffering................Blu Greenberg............22
We must grow in sensitivity to the suffering of other human beings

Shakespeare's King Lear: Gaining a Soul...Ginger Grab..............23
Lear's sufferings free him from his illusions about himself and
the world

Suffering in the Light of the Gospel......Bruce Chilton............24
The loss of ourselves in suffering can lead to transformation

Suffering as Baptism......................Dana English.............26
Suffering can be a means of grace as we identify with others who suffer
 
Suffering and AIDS........................Elice Higginbotham.......27
AIDS is a suffering of loss upon loss

Imaging God in Dust.......................J. Gerald Janzen.........28
Embodied love suffers for the sake of new life

QUOTATIONS ON SUFFERING

In the Hebrew Scriptures [30]
In the New Testament Scriptures [31]
Poets and Writers [32]
Saints and Mystics [33]
Theologians, Scholars, Philosophers [34]
Psychologists, Leaders and Commentators [35]

BOOKS ON SUFFERING

God and Human Suffering by Douglas John Hall [36]
The Alchemy of Illness by Kat Duff [37]
Darkness Visible by William Styron [38]
A Whole New Life by Reynolds Price [38]

IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON SUFFERING
                                                                            
Suffering and Solidarity...................Lucien Richard, O.M.I...39
Lonely and Together in Suffering...........Kathleen J. Grieder.....40
Stewards of Suffering......................William J. Carl, Jr.....42
Jesus in the Garden........................Roger Lovette...........44
Notes on the Bearing of Suffering..........Ella Pearson Mitchell...45
The Lectionary: Preaching and Suffering....Judith Hoch Wray........46


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