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.
General Convention and Old Blues Men
What would it mean at General Convention if we were more conscious of the horizon of eternity?
Justice for the Unclaimed Dead
After St. Joseph's example, my parish pledged to give up our tomb. We pay for the cremation of children for families who cannot. For babies who are unclaimed, we have made a perpetual claim. For all who need a grave, we have opened our grounds.
The light shines incomprehensibly
The light shines in the darkness. And the darkness cannot understand it, control it, name it, manipulate it, or master it.
Jesus leads us in dying to self
The gospel stubbornly reminds us of death, and not just any death, but the gruesome execution of the only human being to have surrendered perfectly to the will of God.
Facing death with Christian hope
If Jesus died was raised to life, then something akin to overturning the law of gravity has been unleashed.
Understanding our embodiment
We have been encouraged in the modern, post-transition age to lose a sense of narrative in our humanity.