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Remember the game Candyland? It’s one of those classic childhood board games where you travel along a colorful path to the ultimate prize: the big candy castle. But along the way, there are these black dots—places where you can get stuck for what feels like an eternity until you draw the right color card to…

Grieving is hard enough when we lose someone we love. It’s common to wish for just one more conversation, thinking it would bring comfort. Emerging technology may offer a new way to grieve, but it comes with serious ethical considerations. In both Europe and the US, services are now available that can record a loved…

When you go through a difficult time, have you ever noticed what people say? Their words can be encouraging and uplifting or frustrating, even offensive. This happens in churches more than I care to admit. A well-meaning person tries to encourage you and uses cliches like, “I believe everything happens for a reason?” Or “Don’t…

In this broken world in which we live, bad things happen that are out of our control. While we don’t like to think about loss, we do need to know how to cope with it when it happens. In the past few weeks, I know several people who experienced sudden loss. Loved ones who died unexpectedly,…
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