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Death will strike your congregation. Are you ready? Are they? Death has become a four-letter word. Whereas in previous generations, the practice of memento mori (“remember death”) was embedded in family life, people today have found ways to distance themselves from death. As Western culture becomes increasingly more secular, the Christian understanding of death and the funeral appear more and...

core—the cult—of the culture. Christians are witnessing the birth of a new anticulture, one predicated on the deity of death, one with its own priests and ministers. It is on this canvas that a Christian understanding of death needs to be rearticulated. A Christian understanding of death is not nearly so instrumental and certainly not as deifying as the one just described. Neither does it trivialize or objectify it. In the Christian imagination, death presents us with the
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