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.
Accompanying the Dying and the Dead in the Time of COVID
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
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Accompanying the Dying
How can the community of care—including family, friends, clergy, hospice, and medical professionals—together provide holistic care to the dying?
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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?
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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?
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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?