From the Editor | May 15, 2026
The Book of Lamentations, then and now, offers a language for grief, fear, and despair.
Julia Upton, RSM
May 15, 2026
The Book of Lamentations, then and now, offers a language for grief, fear, and despair.
God is culpable. There is no other way to come to terms with God’s character that is true to the Bible and our lived experience.
This story of lamentation to liberation has countless fictional elements. It simply could not have happened as recounted. The power of the story is that
The cry that begins our lives is not the sound of despair, but of hope, a reaching toward connection, toward comfort, toward life itself. So
We too often think of it as just complaining, playing the blame game, an excuse for negativity, or a “poor me” syndrome. But, as we’ve
Persist in faith! / Swallow God’s / unconquerable Grace! / Let Evil strangle as / Grace dissipates!
My fear is that if we cannot go to that dismantled place, one of deep confusion and grieving, as well as silence and desolation, then
Walking with the authors of what I have termed “memoirs of lament,” sensitizes me to their suffering and the suffering of others.