Useful Links from the Library Staff

Responding to Tragedy

A List of Resources that might be helpful in response to the shootings at Virginia Tech, and other places

Resources in the Bosworth Memorial Library:

Joey Jeter's "Crisis Preaching" (Abingdon, 1998).
Rowan Williams' "Writing in the Dust: After September 11" (Eerdmans, 2002).
"And the Angels Wept," ed. by David Polk (Chalice, 1995).
       [A collection of sermons in response to the Oklahoma City bombing.]

Online collections of resources in response to 9/11 events

Some of these may not be directly applicable, yet they may prompt thought in helpful ways for pastoral care in times of crisis.  Includes sermons and liturgical material:

http://www.textweek.com/response.htm

http://www.sermonmall.com/WTC/index2.html

http://www.united.edu/academics/disasterhelp.shtml

http://www.usccb.org/nab/mourning.htm

http://www.ucc.org/911/091201c.htm

http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?loc_id=739&act=nav_loc

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4044/is_200507/ai_n15328789
       [An online version of an article by Ron Allen entitled, "Preaching After a Tragedy: Listening to Congregations After September 11, 2001" (Encounter, summer 2005).  Again, although the details differ significantly, Allen offers wise advice in terms of pastoral responses to crisis.]

http://www.ncccusa.org/resources/tsunami-worship-resources.htm
       [Worship resources in the wake of the great tsunami a few years ago]

-- Compiled by Dr. Robert Howard,
Former Circulation Coordinator, Bosworth Memorial Library