Indigo: The Color of Grief
A great tool to help Disciples preachers handle their own grief as they are present with others during their grief.
Reader Recommendation: Indigo: The Color of Grief
Recommended by: Veronica Fallah
Why it might be helpful: We all deal with grief, and this poetry-style book is a great tool to help disciples preachers handle their own grief as they are present with others during their grief.
Indigo: The Color of Grief offers preachers something rare — a space to tend to their own sorrow. Ministry places preachers alongside others in their darkest moments, and that sustained proximity to loss takes a toll. This poetry-style book invites preachers to slow down, name their own grief, and find language for what is often left unspoken. For those who regularly help others grieve, this kind of resource can be quietly transformative.
The book is especially useful as sermon preparation and pastoral reflection intersect. Preachers who find themselves reaching for words to address congregational grief — whether after a community tragedy, a season of losses, or simply the accumulated weight of pastoral care — may find that this book helps them locate their own voice before they speak from the pulpit.
You might also find helpful:
- Soul Injury: Healing the Relationship You Have With Yourself — A resource for preachers attending to their own inner wounds alongside their congregations.
- Post-Traumatic Jesus — David W. Peters reads the gospels through the lens of trauma, offering fresh homiletical territory for preachers.
- The Sound of the Genuine — Dr. Frank Thomas’s keynote on authenticity and vulnerability as the foundation of preaching.
Reader Recommendations are submitted by Disciples preachers and are not created or fully reviewed by the Proclamation Project.
