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Walking Lois Home: Living Out Our Christian Call to Love the Sick and Dying (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540905437)
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xPractical Christian Wisdom for Walking Alongside the Sick and Dying
Lois was a retired ballroom dance instructor with a terminal cancer diagnosis and no one to call. The day she received her prognosis, she tentatively reached out to the pastor of a church she had attended just once. In response, Michael and Tracy Balboni brought Lois into their home to care for her through her final months.
Jesus said that visiting the sick is visiting him (Matthew 25). Caring for the sick and dying is not optional for followers of Jesus--but most of us feel wholly unprepared for it, uncertain what to say, what to do, or how to enter someone else's suffering with grace and love. Walking Lois Home fills that gap.
Written by a uniquely qualified husband-and-wife team--Michael Balboni, a Harvard faculty member, theologian-in-residence at Brigham & Women's Hospital, and pastor at Park Street Church in Boston; and Tracy Balboni, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Director of the Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology Service at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute--this book draws on both rigorous research and lived pastoral and medical experience to equip three distinct audiences:
● Individuals--who want to know what to say, what to do, and how to show up for a seriously ill friend, neighbor, or family member with grace rather than awkwardness
● Congregations--who want to build a culture of care for the seriously ill and dying, understanding this ministry as central to the church's calling rather than peripheral to it
● Patients--who are navigating serious illness themselves and want to do so with faith, meaning, and the support of a Christian community
Framed by Lois's story and illuminated by multiple patient accounts, Walking Lois Home offers medical, theological, and pastoral wisdom woven together in a way that no other book in this space has attempted. It is at once a call to the church, a practical guide for individuals, and a companioning resource for patients--grounded in more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in spirituality and medicine and in years of ministry and clinical care alongside the seriously ill.
Jesus calls us to care for the sick as an act of service to him. Walking Lois Home will show you how to answer that call--with faith, grace, and love.
Author: Michael And Tracy Balboni
ISBN-10: 1540905438
ISBN-13: 9781540905437
Publisher: Baker Books
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2026
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Lois was a retired ballroom dance instructor with a terminal cancer diagnosis and no one to call. The day she received her prognosis, she tentatively reached out to the pastor of a church she had attended just once. In response, Michael and Tracy Balboni brought Lois into their home to care for her through her final months.
Jesus said that visiting the sick is visiting him (Matthew 25). Caring for the sick and dying is not optional for followers of Jesus--but most of us feel wholly unprepared for it, uncertain what to say, what to do, or how to enter someone else's suffering with grace and love. Walking Lois Home fills that gap.
Written by a uniquely qualified husband-and-wife team--Michael Balboni, a Harvard faculty member, theologian-in-residence at Brigham & Women's Hospital, and pastor at Park Street Church in Boston; and Tracy Balboni, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Director of the Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology Service at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute--this book draws on both rigorous research and lived pastoral and medical experience to equip three distinct audiences:
● Individuals--who want to know what to say, what to do, and how to show up for a seriously ill friend, neighbor, or family member with grace rather than awkwardness
● Congregations--who want to build a culture of care for the seriously ill and dying, understanding this ministry as central to the church's calling rather than peripheral to it
● Patients--who are navigating serious illness themselves and want to do so with faith, meaning, and the support of a Christian community
Framed by Lois's story and illuminated by multiple patient accounts, Walking Lois Home offers medical, theological, and pastoral wisdom woven together in a way that no other book in this space has attempted. It is at once a call to the church, a practical guide for individuals, and a companioning resource for patients--grounded in more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in spirituality and medicine and in years of ministry and clinical care alongside the seriously ill.
Jesus calls us to care for the sick as an act of service to him. Walking Lois Home will show you how to answer that call--with faith, grace, and love.
Author: Michael And Tracy Balboni
ISBN-10: 1540905438
ISBN-13: 9781540905437
Publisher: Baker Books
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2026
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
By Michael And Tracy Balboni
xTracy Balboni, MD, and Michael Balboni, PhD, a dynamic husband and wife team, serve as researchers, professional caregivers, and codirectors of the Harvard Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion. Tracy is a professor at Harvard Medical School, an internationally known researcher in palliative care, and director of the Harvard Radiation Oncology residency program. Michael is a theologian and scholar on spirituality and medicine at Harvard and serves as a pastor at Restoration Fellowship in Boston, Massachusetts.
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