I’m honored to have been selected as a Drop: Christian Century Essay contest winner. Read the full essay here. I was a toddler when I began working the assembly line in my father’s western Indiana drug trafficking business. We sorted and stuffed kilos into the fiberglass …
Death, dying, and grief has become all the more real during this global pandemic … and still, very few of us are prepared to talk about it. Now, former hospital chaplain and “grief guru” Dana Trent offers a way to make talking about death and …
From The Associated Press: “COVID has certainly brought death to the forefront. It has brought the death-positive movement to the forefront, but we’re still scared,” Trent said. “What I’m grateful for is that COVID has awakened society to the possibility of death. None of us …
From Emerson Wells: “Elon’s University’s student-organized Ripple Conference kicked off the weekend on Friday, Feb. 21. This year’s theme of “Interfaith in the Real World: Cultivating Community Cooperation” focused on the “practical applications of interfaith. Speakers touched on social justice and connecting across religions.” Read …
I had distinct the honor of holding space for and with Paul Samuel Dolman as we discussed the recent loss of his mother, Eileen. Listen here as we dive deeply into what the first few weeks of being an “adult orphan” look like, as well …
Amid prayerful-yet-playful tweets bemoaning missed episodes of Game of Thrones, the voice of our generation, Rachel Held Evans, died one week ago following complications from a sudden illness. At 37, the theological giant, wife, and mother to two small children just before one of the …