Our culture is inclined to hurry past loss and grief, to rush too quickly to resolution. “Everything will be all right,” we assure ourselves, when everything is not at all right. The best and most sensitive of us know this in our preaching and pastoral care. But no one is immune to the deep inclination to “get over it” and move on. The prophets know about loss and grief, and Brueggemann supplies a wealth of textural material to illustrate.
