"When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes-war, famine, pandemic-we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its...

When we hear that a friend or family member is struggling, it can be easy to say, "I'm praying for you," but harder to know what to actually pray. Through forty carefully-chosen Bible passages, Nany Guthrie opens up the wealth of scripture to teach us how to pray for those who are hurting. She shows us how the Bible provides us with a vocabulary for prayer that enables us to ask God to achieve what He intends in and through suffering. As you pray...

Howard B. Wigglebottom is a bunny who likes to fix things, but when his friend Ali is sad because her parents are fighting, he learns that sometimes all a friend can do to help is to be a friend.