Nurse and family in a hospital with a sick patient.

Accompanying the Dying and the Dead in the Time of COVID

Panels of experts from different fields examine what can be learned from our experience of the pandemic.

Designed for an interdisciplinary and ecumenical audience of pastors, liturgists, hospice workers, musicians, medical professionals, and others involved in caring for the dying and providing leadership for funerals and memorials, each session concludes with an interactive Q&A period.

Thomas G. Long

Series moderator

Thomas G. Long

Author of Accompany Them with Singing–The Christian Funeral; Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

Panelists

James Abbington ○ Remi Chiu ○ Dawn DeVries ○ Vanessa Harding ○ Jennifer L. Hollis ○ John Horan ○ The Rev. Michael L. Lewis, S.T.L. ○ Jennifer McBride ○ The Rev. Kevin Park ○ Markus Rathey ○ James M. Starke ○ The Rev. Khalia J. Williams


 

Webinars

  • Accompanying the Dying

    How can the community of care—including family, friends, clergy, hospice, and medical professionals—together provide holistic care to the dying?

  • Memorializing the Dead

    What light can members of the clergy, funeral professionals, and musicians shed on the liturgical and practical challenges of funerals and memorial services?

  • Caring for the Dying and the Dead

    How has the church offered care for the dying and memorialized the dead in previous times of plague? What practical lessons might we adopt for today?

  • Thinking Theologically

    How, in funeral homilies, liturgy, music, and pastoral conversations, do we help people of faith understand how God is present in this time?