Rabbi Harold S. Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981) was the first in a string of popular theology books designed to help people deal with life's common problems : guilt, forgiveness, growing old, suffering, injustice, conscience. His latest, Conquering Fear : Living Boldly in an Uncertain World is due out next week.
Further Reading
Click here for a short list of other books by Rabbi Kushner.Surf's Up
Catch a (not commercial-free) FORA.tv broadcast of Kushner discussing his book Overcoming Life's Disappointments.