death
How not to comfort the mourning: Hospital chaplain J.S. Park talks grief in new book
By Kathryn Post — April 16, 2024
(RNS) — ‘The biggest myth I see is that grief is a poison to get past,’ said Park.
Animal chaplains offer spiritual care for every species
By Kathryn Post — March 8, 2024
(RNS) — 'This is beyond animal blessings and pet funerals,' said animal chaplain Sarah Bowen.
Why I say kaddish for my father
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 1, 2024
(RNS) — The annual search for my father's grave reveals the meaning of immortality.
‘Rabbi, what happens after I die?’
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 23, 2023
(RNS) — If you never learned this in religious school, then (in Brooklynese) 'you was robbed.'
The spirituality of a college reunion
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 14, 2022
A bunch of college friends. And then, someone tapped on a glass...
Wisconsin megachurch pastor Stuart Briscoe, lifelong broadcast evangelist, dies at 91
By Riley Farrell — August 5, 2022
(RNS) — His Wisconsin church remains the largest in the state, and his media ministry, 'Telling the Truth,' continues to broadcast online and on the radio.
Funerals announced for 3 killed at Alabama church dinner
By Associated Press — June 21, 2022
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Services for Walter Bartlett Rainey, Sarah Sharon Yeager and Jane Pounds will take place at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, where the three church members were fatally shot Thursday night.
Your life is a seder, and its story is a haggadah
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 22, 2022
No human story is ever complete. We always wind up skipping some pages.
Author Lee Strobel, after brush with death, explores ‘Case for Heaven’ in film
By Adelle M. Banks — March 31, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The topic of what does indeed happen after we leave this world is more relevant to a lot of people today than it was a couple of years ago,’ Strobel said.
For Rabbi Earl Grollman, death was the classroom
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 20, 2021
(RNS) — Rabbi Earl Grollman has died. His books taught us how to cope with that.
During the High Holy Days, ‘each of us is a cemetery’
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 25, 2021
(RNS) — How do we confront our losses during this sacred season? The final moments of ‘Shtisel’ contain the answer.
Funeral directors survive ‘surreal’ year with creativity and faith
By Elizabeth E. Evans — February 4, 2021
(RNS) — With safety precautions changing the way people mourn, as well as the sheer volume of COVID-19 deaths, the men and women who sometimes wryly call themselves ‘last responders’ have had a year like no other.
Death expert Gary Laderman: ‘This holiday season is going to be a killer’
By Yonat Shimron — December 14, 2020
(RNS) — The holidays mark the passage of time and provide ritual forms of continuity and reassurance, says Laderman. For many that won't happen this year.
Black clergy memorialize the dead, ask government to address disparities
By Adelle M. Banks — April 16, 2020
(RNS) — Some are mourning losses in the highest echelons of their denomination. Others are counting the dead, sick and unemployed.
In California, residents may be able to compost their bodies after death
By Alejandra Molina — March 9, 2020
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, a Democrat, in late February introduced a piece of legislation that would give residents the legal option to have their bodies transformed into soil.
Page 1 of 4
