Living through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness.(Facing Pain, Finding Hope: A Physician Examines Pain, Faith, and the Healing Stories of Jesus)(Being Sick Well: Joyful Living Despite Chronic Illness)(Book review)

From: The Christian Century | Date: April 18, 2006| Author: Greene-McCreight, Kathryn | Copyright information

Living Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness. By Kristin M. Swenson. Baylor University Press, 273 pp., $19.95.

Facing Pain, Finding Hope: A Physician Examines Pain, Faith, and the Healing Stories of Jesus. By Daniel Hurley. Loyola Press, 275 pp., $22.95.

Being Sick Well: Joyful Living Despite Chronic Illness. By Jeffrey H. Boyd. Baker, 256 pp., $14.99 paperback.

VIRGINIA WOOLF wrote in her essay "On Being Ill": "English, which can expre...

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