My wife’s grandmother recently passed away. In a conversation today about the upcoming funeral, our 5 year old daughter highlighted one of the beautiful aspects of Christian dying, in an exchange something like this.
June 7, 2010
An excerpt from The Art of Dying, published in Christianity Today. Our church doesn’t have enough funerals,” associate pastor John Stoltzfus said in his annual All Saints’ Day sermon. In his suburban Mennonite congregation, members tend to leave the area after they retire. They move into denominational retirement communities, or they head south to warmer… [Read more…]
April 19, 2010
I saw the writer Thomas Lynch over the weekend. Lynch was at the Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing where he discussed how being a poet helped him as a prose writer. In addition to his poetry, Lynch is the author of The Undertaking in which he talks about being the director of a funeral… [Read more…]
April 8, 2010
Funeral traditions are an important piece of the grieving and mourning process. They give us a familiar and rehearsed way to deal with the loss of loved one. Yet, funeral traditions are in steep decline as more and more people decide to get creative and have fun rather than mourn. Against this trend stands the… [Read more…]
July 13, 2010
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