I conducted funerals during the COVID restrictions. We had a family funeral during the later stages of COVID restrictions. One of the most draining parts of a wretched two weeks was curating a list of 125 names that were coming to the funeral, which had to be provided to the funeral directors. Of all the …
There’s a lot of silence in times of grief. We lack words to express what we feel. We lack the capacity to bear what the grieving express. I think living with grief gives a context in which a language to express feeling, and an ability to hear what the grieving say, can develop. If we …
To love and to be loved will be to grieve … and to be the cause of grief. … it is ordinary, in that it happens to all of us at some time or another. We are all, at some point in our lives, obliterated by loss. If you haven’t been by now, you will …
A selection of writings by Clarence Jordan titled The Inconvenient Gospel is not a long read, but I don’t want to read it too quickly. Everything seems quotable. You can’t put Christianity into practice. You can’t make it work.As desperately as it is needed in this poor, broken world it is not a philosophy of …
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