The prevalent nature of handling dead bodies and conducting funerals in the west is not to handle them at all, nor to view them. Those who view dead bodies observe that they look different. The departure of life brings that change. For those of Christian belief the soul has departed. It is good to remember …
Thomas Lynch is the co-author of The Good Funeral with Thomas G. Long. Lynch is the Undertaker, Long the Pastor, each bringing their own perspectives on funerals, as well as informing each other through their friendship and partnership in good funerals. Lynch observes that funeral practice in the USA (and much of the western world) …
In an introductory chapter in the book The Good Funeral Thomas G. Long writes about his experience of his call to ministry. A lot of that experience resonated, especially this paragraph: The fact of the matter is that most people who end up as priests, ministers, and pastors are not religious virtuosi at all, bear …
Visited the picturesque Rendelsham Cemetery today and saw a couple of phrases at the bottom of headstones that I don’t remember seeing before. They appeared more than once, a lasting expression of faith in generations past still speaking.
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