The Pastor and Grief Author:Jon L. Joyce "...provides a handbook for pastors and congregations for pastors and congregations to stimulate thinking about pastoral and congregational care in dying, death and mourning. The author sees pastoral care of the grieving as set in the context of year-round pastoral care in the congregational family of God. He provides suggestions for preaching... more », teaching, group counseling and for the congregation to carry its share of ministering to one another in these crucial periods in any person's life. Included are 19 funeral sermons from the author's own ministry, sermons which helped the bereaved step from the unreality of the loss of a loved one into the next phase of the grief process."« less