https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/pastoral-care/Recent content in Pastoral Care on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usSun, 26 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/faith/whether-it-added-up/Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/faith/whether-it-added-up/<p>A woman I&rsquo;ll call Dorothy sat at her kitchen table and poured me coffee in a mug that had a faded cardinal on it. She was seventy-nine. Retired school librarian. Married to the same man for fifty-one years before he died, and she had been alone for three.</p> <p>She didn&rsquo;t call me about grief. She said that on the phone. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not calling about Ray.&rdquo;</p> <p>I said I understood.</p> <p>She said: &ldquo;I need to ask you something and I need you not to give me a church answer.&rdquo;</p>