Bread & Roses & Resurrection
Trusting dying is not giving up, it is giving to God. Death is one end, but it is not the end.
Palm Sunday and Death’s Defeat
By Clint Wilson
When they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:10
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Advent, The Four Last Things: Death
No one has ever died as completely as Jesus.
Memento Mori: On Death and Evil
Faith strangely exists amidst explicit doubts when we contemplate our death.
Your Funeral Is Not About You
A closed casket, the use of the pall, and matching hangings and vestments in the color of Easter visually shift the focus away from death and dead bodies to the resurrection.
‘Honest to God’ and the Language of Death and Mourning
The language of the prayer book acknowledges the pain and sadness of death. “Out of the deep have I cried unto thee. O Lord, hear my voice.”
Renewing the Art of Holy Dying
How might we encourage faith and trust in Christ in the final hour? How might we minister to bodies we believe will rise again? How might we convey the mercy of God to those whose strength is gone?
Speaking of the Dead
I am disturbed that any Christian — among the laity or ordained — would demonize a newly departed Christian soul.