The Urban Well at Saint James Episcopal Church, in Lancaster, is hosting The Cure for Sorrow: A Conversation with Jan Richardson on grief, loss and stubborn hope via Zoom from 9 to 9:30 p.m., June 4, 2021, and from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., June 5, 2021. As one well acquainted with grief following the sudden death of her husband, Richardson writes with poetic grace about her loss.

She will share from her books The Cure for Sorrow and Sparrow: A Book of Life and Death and Life as part of an invitation into a conversation about grief and hope. Grief might be from the loss of a loved one or the loss of landscapes due to climate change. She will speak about how we can become whole as we enter into the strange graces that grief brings.

According to Richardson, grieving works with the most raw and elemental forces in us and propels us in directions we had not planned to go. “Grief helps us recognize our shared fragility and calls forth our natural resilience,” she says.