Description: In this thoughtful and practical book, pastor Donna Schaper guides the reader through the process of grieving the death of a parent.
Brief description: Donna Schaper has been an ordained minister and activist for over fifty years. She has written thirty-nine books and hundreds of essays, features, and op-eds, including a humor series, "The Dolly Mama Does Religion." She has also worked with endowments for churches and nonprofits both large and small. For a decade she wrote an environmental column for the National Catholic Reporter eco-blog. For the last two decades, she has written daily devotionals for the United Church of Christ website that reaches 35,000 readers. She currently hosts a monthly conversation on the Brooklyn Rail site, called the Brooklyn Trail.