Funerals

Rituals of death can remind us of America’s “new birth of freedom”—and our rebirth and renewal through Christ’s sacrifice.

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Ephraim Radner’s “narrow” concern for protecting the mundane goods of earthly life isn’t so narrow after all.

Tribal hospitality demands feeding the 500. But believers pinched by poverty call for cultural changes that still preserve honor.

With church funerals and burials no longer the norm, pastors hope to restore occasions to gather and remember.

Why are American death rituals changing?

Angry but not shocked at racist violence, the victims’ families at funerals this week have a prayer: Let these deaths not be in vain.

The trend toward secular memorials reverses for the first time in a decade.

Don’t distance from mourning. You need the power of worship to usher your loved ones to glory.

His final memorial echoed biblical themes of justice accompanied by the “full soundscape of gospel history.”