"While this age of overwhelm floods individuals with streams of anxiety that flow from every direction, in this beautiful book Robert C. Dykstra throws us a life raft by fighting zombies in our midst, giving us permission to be sexual, and liberating our imagination, showing us the way back to God as one who delights in us. We would be lost without Dykstra."
--Nathan Carlin, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Ethics, and Chair of the Faculty, McGovern Medical School

"In culling the wisdom of Donald Capps, Dumbledore, Mister Rogers, and others, Robert Dykstra has woven together a series of choice essays that evince the protean resources available to the pastoral theologian. Certainly, when such resources are used with care, as is the case with Finding Ourselves Lost, we discover that there is, indeed, a cloud of witnesses ready to comfort us in this age of overwhelm."
--Jay-Paul Hinds, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care, The Divinity School, Howard University

"In an age of professionalism and specialists, the human predicament of isolation, disconnection, even that of being lost, threatens our spiritual, emotional, and physical wellbeing. These intimate and empathic reflections shared from the heart of a pastoral counselor, educator, and mentor are an affirmation that connection, honesty, and vulnerability may be the way we move from being lost to being found."
Landon Bogan, Director of Clinical Pastoral Education, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, California


"This book crystallizes Dykstra's interpretation of pastoral theology: to the extent that ministers explore their own pain, they will be equipped to care for others and to tend their wounds. Dykstra writes with the candor of someone who has plunged into the depths of his inner world, only to discover that grace is within us but also among us. He reminds us that if we find ourselves lost, someone is likely to find us and contribute to our revivification."
Rubén Arjona, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care, Iliff School of Theology