Amanda Held Opelt
Amanda Held Opelt is the author of A Hole in the World: Finding hope in rituals of grief and healing and the forthcoming Holy Unhappiness: God, goodness, and the myth of the blessed life (Worthy Books). She lives in the mountains of Boone, North Carolina.
OpinionThe Bible doesn’t gloss over grief, and neither should we
When Amanda Held Opelt suffered a season of loss - including three miscarriages and the death of her sister, Rachel Held Evans - she was confronted with sorrow she didn’t know to how face. Why do so many Christians insist on an immediate, redemptive story arc when they experience suffering?
