When catastrophe strikes, the instinct is often to move quickly toward explanation, strategy, or resolve. Jewish tradition insists on something else first: lament. Not as collapse, not as helplessness ...

Change happens when we acknowledge the truth. And the truth can be painful, and often, we try to ignore that in the church. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah is here to share why it's essential to listen to the ...

After lament has been voiced, a different kind of work begins. Grief tells the truth about what hurts; prophecy asks what that truth now requires of us. In Jewish tradition, prophecy is not prediction ...

A new publication from the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”, edited by Catholic theologian Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks, is about laments in the biblical Psalms. In the anthology, ...