I’ve featured music videos recorded at Covenant Presbyterian Nashville on this blog so when I heard the news of the shootings at their associated school today it resonated on multiple levels. The later news that one of the children lost was from the family of the congregation’s pastor resonated as well. How to minister to …
Still reading Faith, Hope, And Carnage. Nick Cave describes the online interactions he has through his website and the Red Hand Files. He mentions a letter from a woman named Tiffany who included a poem she wrote. It’s breathtaking. young death when young death shines a flash on your 2am the cop says takes the …
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 …
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