To Give Grief a Shape: The Book of Lamentations and the Life of Faith

2022-07-19

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Joshua Chestnut As a culture we struggle to know what to do with our grief and pain. We lack social practices and a shared vocabulary of grief to help us to make our way through it. This lecture will be a consideration of some of the Bible's poetry of pain, the book of Lamentations, to see what surprising and unasked-for help it might offer us...

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit https://southboroughlabri.org/

by Joshua Chestnut

As a culture we struggle to know what to do with our grief and pain. We lack social practices and a shared vocabulary of grief to help us to make our way through it. This lecture will be a consideration of some of the Bible's poetry of pain, the book of Lamentations, to see what surprising and unasked-for help it might offer us.

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