Finding the God of Empathy, Lessons from the Book of Job by Stephen Bauer.

Stephen Bauer holds a doctoral degree and is professor of theology and ethics at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, United States.

As a pastor, having regularly ministered to the grief-stricken, I developed approaches that seemed effective.

However, when my son, Andrew, died in his sleep without warning in early two thousand twenty-one, the trauma for both my wife and me broadened my perspective on ministering to those grieving traumatic loss.

After my son's death, three distinct patterns emerged in how people interacted with us.

Explanation, exhortation, and empathy.