Death & Community: The Body Gathered (To Hold Death’s Hand continued)
…you might be thinking that while these ideas are somewhat logical, you personally could never stomach dealing with the bodies of the dead.
To Hold Death’s Hand: On How the Dead Matter for Communion
Communion, even simply as an act of profound togetherness, has been literally life saving for me in my own journey. Yet one must not be satisfied merely with the milk of human kindness; the meat of this rite is in the connection with the dead.
To Hold Death’s Hand: Baptismal Identity, the Living Dead
Living as one who is already dead has the power to move the Christian into a reality that is deeper than being a good person…
To Hold Death’s Hand: Baptismal Identity, Dying and Rising
The baptismal font is not merely a bath, where we are washed clean of sin, but a moment of potential drowning.
To Hold Death’s Hand: A Christian Manifesto on Care of the Body at the Time of Physical Death
…death will continue to grip our souls insofar as baptism is disconnected with death and the baptized do not hold death’s hand.
Annealing Souls 