Tag: Faith and Culture

The Magazine: Ritual making meaning when death meets life

white crosses with a name and date set up on the shoulder of a busy highway, elaborate front yard arrangements of candles and stuffed animals, urban sidewalks dotted with candles and liquor bottles; these places, tributes to local death, are holy ground. But what do they mean, to those who pass by and to those who construct them? And what might the church learn from these interactive memorials?

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A teacher and student remembered

StoryCorps on NPR shared a conversation between Yusor Abu-Salha, one of the students killed in Tuesday’s shooting in Chapel Hill, N.C., and her former third grade teacher, Mussarut

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Going to the chapel: weddings for non-members

please don’t say you’re going to be active members after the wedding if you truly haven’t made that commitment. My experience is that if you aren’t active for at least a year before the wedding, you likely won’t be active after the wedding – although I know there are exceptions. I’d rather you be honest.

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