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A Whole New World
Life After Bethany
Jan C. Rush & Tony Cartledge
Paperback | 176 pages
978-1-57312-448-5
Regular Price: 5.00

Book Description

“This is a book about loss and about life, about despair and hope, about darkness and dawn. It begins with a personal accounting of a parent’s worse highway nightmare and ends along a winding road where happier dreams may still be found. The central character in this story is Bethany Rush Cartledge, a sunny seven-year-old girl who dies in the first chapter but lives on every page.”

So begins A Whole New World, the story of Jan and Tony Cartledge’s loss of their young daughter Bethany. Writing separately and together, they invite the reader to walk with them on their journey through the shock of Bethany’s death, the numbness and pain of the first year without her, and the healing process of the decade that followed. As ministers, both Tony and Jan struggled with the theological implications of tragedy and loss, as well as the psychological polarities of choosing to live as victims or as survivors. Their story will touch the hearts, minds and spirits of those who read it.

Included in this book is a study guide for use by individuals or small groups seeking a study of hope after despair. In addition, the appendices include considerations of how to deal with tragedy and death with children and youth, as well as a select bibliography of grief resources.

About the Author

Jan Rush has served on the ministry staff of three churches and is currently Program Assistant for WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh.

Tony Cartledge is Professor of Old Testament at Campbell University Divinity School. He is also the author of 1 & 2 Samuel (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary series), Telling Stories: Tall Tales and Deep Truths, Sessions with Samuel: Stories from the Edge, and Intrigued, How I Love to Proclaim It: Adventures in Theological Thinking. He is co-author with Jan Rush of Job: Into the Fire, Out of the Ashes (Smyth & Helwys Annual Bible Study).

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