mourning
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.
The Mormon Jesus can handle your grief and pain
By Jana Riess — February 22, 2021
(RNS) — I hunger greatly for deeper connections at church, a frank acknowledgment that most of us are the walking wounded.
In the midst of deep grief, a scholar writes how Hindu rituals taught her to let go
By Ketika Garg — October 2, 2020
(THE CONVERSATION) — Rituals can hold the core beliefs of a culture and provide a sense of control in an otherwise helpless situation.
‘He is going to change the world’: Funeral held for Floyd
By Nomaan Merchant, Juan Lozano, and Adam Geller — June 10, 2020
HOUSTON (AP) — George Floyd was fondly remembered as “Big Floyd” at a Tuesday funeral in Houston with over 500 attendees.
Lament: A day to mourn
By Jim Wallis — May 28, 2020
(RNS) — As we mark the death of 100,000 people in the U.S. from COVID-19, an unprecedented group of 100 national faith leaders looks to elected officials to observe Monday, June 1, as a National Day of Mourning and Lament.
J. Dana Trent is on a mission to discuss death with the post-Millennial generation
By Yonat Shimron — February 3, 2020
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Her fascination with death is part of a growing movement whose adherents believe in wresting control of death from the funeral industry and breaking the silence around death through frank discussions.
Seven things that death can teach you
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 4, 2019
How shiva has jumped the shark, and other observations after my father's death.
Three days after deadly shooting, Nashville church holds first service
By Natalie Allison — September 28, 2017
ANTIOCH, Tenn. (USA Today) — Services went on as they do every Wednesday at 7 p.m., though the church is still figuring out what to do with an auditorium in disarray and the cluster of reporters that continued to hover.
Mourning in Manchester, religious and secular traditions meet and meld
By Catherine Pepinster — May 27, 2017
(RNS) This is a moment where Christian tradition meets secular rituals that have come to define public mourning since this increasingly irreligious nation said goodbye to Princess Diana exactly 20 years ago.
The ‘Splainer: Sheryl Sandberg and the Jewish way of mourning
By Lauren Markoe — June 4, 2015
(RNS) "I have lived thirty years in these thirty days," wrote Sheryl Sandberg after the end of the monthlong period of Jewish mourning. "I am thirty years sadder. I feel like I am thirty years wiser."
How to save the Jewish mourning practice for the next generation (COMMENTARY)
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 2, 2015
(RNS) As beautiful and meaningful as it might be, almost no one sits shiva for seven days anymore. Perhaps it's time for modern Jews to simply own up to the changed nature of modern life, and officially adopt three-day shiva as standard practice.
ShivaConnect helps Jews navigate the mourning period
By Ann Marie Somma — October 24, 2013
(RNS) The aim of the website is to avoid duplication and consolidate the many facets of Jewish mourning.
REFLECTION: Words made flesh
By Rhonda Mawhood Lee — January 17, 2013
In the season of Epiphany, an Episcopal priest remembers a departed parishioner.
In Newtown churches, many questions – and tears – but few answers
By Yamiche Alcindor — December 17, 2012
NEWTOWN, Conn. (RNS) At houses of worship here, people gathered in pews, crying, kneeling and hugging each other through services that focused on remembering the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, uniting the community, celebrating Christmas and preventing similar disasters.
Technology shifts the meaning of ‘death us do part’ in funeral rituals
By Laura Petrecca — May 31, 2012
(RNS) Technological advances have dramatically altered how we grieve for and memorialize the dead. In Mourning 2.0, bereaved share their sorrow on Facebook, and light virtual candles on memorial websites. Mourners affix scannable barcode chips to tombstones so visitors can pull up photos and videos on a smartphone. By Laura Petrecca.
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