Bone of My Bone: Reflections from an Oncology Ward
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Written by the father of an infant son who was diagnosed with leukemia when he was only months old, this book calls to question and reckons with faith, life, and an exploration of where God is in childhood cancer. If God exists at all, God must be found on a pediatric oncology floor. Guided throughout by the question “Where is God in this?” each chapter focuses on locating the divine by weaving together personal experience with theological reflections on Christian doctrines.
This book is not an answer to the question of why suffering happens. It is a wrestling with God’s presence that is at once personal, pastoral, and theological, and may just be a companion to finding God in the midst of your own hurt.
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- Reckons with faith and life by exploring where God is in the context of childhood cancer.
- Locates the divine by weaving together personal experience with theological reflections on Christian doctrines.
- Wrestles with God's presence, offering a personal, pastoral, and theological companion
What a beautiful book! Grant weaves profound knowledge of scripture and doctrine to think theologically and spiritually in a terrible circumstance: his son’s cancer treatment. The pediatric oncology ward becomes a deep place to discover God, for ‘a God who can’t be found in suffering can’t be found anywhere.’ No one will read this book without being enriched by Good News. I will return to this book very often.
——Paul Stroble, Retired Adjunct Professor, Eden Theological Seminary
Bone of My Bone is a heartfelt emotional narrative about a father seeking spiritual understanding following his young son’s cancer diagnosis. The author, a pastor, shares his insights and reflections during this challenging time, inviting readers to engage in a deeper conversation about their own experiences and to explore the question of where God is during unimaginable circumstances. This book is a poignant, vulnerable, and thought-provoking story that is a must-read.
——Jami Curley, Dean of the College of Nursing and Social Sciences, Lourdes University
In Bone of my Bone, Grant Romoser-Claunch has brought the work of theology out of the abstract world of ideas and into the living, breathing, and suffering world of a pediatric cancer ward. Eschewing easy answers or trite solutions, Romoser-Claunch is the be praised not only for his theological acumen but even more so for his hard-won human sensitivities that make this work achingly powerful. I commend this book to all who may wonder what theology is really for in a world that all too often turns away from the pain that lies at its heart.
——Adam Ployd, Dean, Davenport College, Yale University
At once a stirring memoir of parenthood in crisis, a theological interrogation of suffering and pain, and a pastoral offering of a family’s journey with pediatric cancer, Grant Romoser-Claunch has written a book that can guide, challenge, and comfort readers on various levels. Bone of My Bone boldly advances theological inquiry into the challenging subject of theodicy, even as it pulls no punches in sharing the agonizing personal experience of a pastor and his family. Honest, brave, and beautiful, this book tells a powerful story of suffering and hope and forges new important insights in Christian theology and pastoral care.
——Deborah Krause, President, Eden Theological Seminary
- Title: Bone of My Bone: Reflections from an Oncology Ward
- Author: Grant Romoser-Claunch
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 140
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Disease › Cancer
- ISBNs: 9798385249046, 9798385249039, 9798385249022
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385249046
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2026-02-22T03:58:37Z